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I Was Snatched at the MH17 ‘Morgue’

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Reporters were arrested by rebels anxious to impress them with their anger—and their blades.

DONETSK, Ukraine — An hour had passed by since our detention; we still did not know if we, two female writers and one male writer from American and European publications, were doomed to spend our Sunday and who knows how many more days in jail.

Our interrogators, a group of militiamen...

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