For a second day, OSCE monitors at the scene have had their movements
restricted by militiamen.
Reports that bodies have been moved prompted anger from the Netherlands. Most
of the passengers were Dutch.
The jet was reportedly hit by a missile over a rebel-held area in east
Ukraine on Thursday. All 298 people died.
Both Ukraine and the rebels have accused each other of shooting it down.
The Boeing 777 flight MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. It fell
between Krasni Luch in Luhansk region and Shakhtarsk in the neighbouring region
of Donetsk.
The
passenger list released by Malaysia Airlines shows the plane was carrying
193 Dutch nationals (including one with dual US nationality), 43 Malaysians
(including 15 crew), 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians and 10 Britons (including
one with dual South African nationality), four Germans, four Belgians, three
from the Philippines, and one each from Canada and New Zealand.
The UN Security Council has called for a full and independent international investigation into the crash
OSCE monitors say pro-Russian gunmen allowed them to visit more of the area on Saturday Pressure on Russia
In
a statement the Ukrainian government complained that pro-Russian rebels had
removed 38 bodies from the site near the village of Grabove and taken them to a
morgue in the rebel-held city of Donetsk.
The BBC's Richard Galpin, who is at the crash site, says he saw bodies being
removed by emergency workers, but it was not clear where they were being taken,
nor whether the workers were loyal to the rebels or the government in Kiev.
Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans, who is visiting Ukraine, said he had
been "shocked" by the reported removals.
"As soon as we receive proof, we will not rest until those guilty are put to
trial - not only those who pulled the trigger, but also those who made it
possible," he said.
At the scene: Fergal Keane, BBC News, Grabove
The OSCE monitors were forced to walk to the field where the plane crashed
At the main site the bodies were without covering. Some lay alone. Others
were grouped together amid the twisted metal, the bags and cases, the child's
playing cards, the guide books, the laptop computer, the duty free whiskey
bottle, the woman's hat.
A militiaman with the nickname "Grumpy" - he was squat and barrel-chested
with poor teeth and carried a machine gun - harangued me when I asked if the
rebels would now stop fighting.
"You are only here because foreigners are dead," he said. And the old story
was repeated, the same I have heard on numerous roadblocks - the Western media
were all capitalists doing the bidding of their American and EU masters.
When the OSCE turned up in a convoy "Grumpy" came into his own. Now he was a
man of power. He halted the OSCE and told them they would have to go forward on
foot.
Scant respect for bodies at crash
site
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The world community, Ukraine added, must put pressure on Russia to pull back
its "terrorists" and allow Ukrainian and international experts to carry out
their inquiry.
Speaking in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong-Lai said it
would be "inhumane" if Malaysian experts would not be given access to the crash
site.
He also expressed concern that the site was not properly sealed and could be
tampered with.
The monitors from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
(OSCE) are now at the site. The UK urged Russia to use its influence over the rebels to improve access to the site
OSCE spokesman Michael Bociurkiw said access had improved from Friday and
that the monitors were seeing parts of the field they had not seen before.
However he added that their movements were still being restricted. "We are
unarmed civilians, we are not in the position to argue heavily with people with
heavy arms," he said.
The monitors' mission is to observe the site pending the arrival of
international experts being sent to investigate the cause of the crash.
'Act of terrorism'
On Saturday the Russian foreign ministry urged both sides in the Ukrainian
conflict "to do everything possible to give international experts access to the
aircraft crash".
Earlier, the Russian defence ministry accused the West of waging an
information war against Moscow. It challenged Ukraine to produce details of what
its anti-aircraft systems were doing at the time.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron and his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte - who discussed the matter in a phone
conversation on Saturday - called on the EU to "reconsider its approach to
Russia" following the disaster.
Separatist leaders have denied earlier reports that the plane's flight
recorders - the so-called black boxes - had been found.
Ukraine's government called Thursday's disaster an "act of terrorism" and
released what they say are intercepted phone
conversations that proved the plane was shot down by separatists.
Ukrainian officials also said they had evidence Russian military personnel
operated a sophisticated Buk missile system that is thought to have been used to
shoot down the plane.
The pro-Russian separatists claim a Ukrainian air force jet brought down the airliner.
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