Father Of 17-Year-Old MH17 Victim Writes Heart-Wrenching Open Letter To Putin
Hans de Borst lost his daughter in the MH17 crash. He is not about to forgive the people who shot his young daughter out of the sky.
By Mei Mei Chu — 22 Jul 2014, 01:36 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
Hans de Borst has lost his one and only daughter in the downing of MH17. Elsemiek de Borst was only 17 years old.
Grieving father Hans de Borst (left) has penned an angry letter to Vladimir Putin after his daughter Elsemiek (right) died in the Malaysia Airlines crash over the Ukraine.
Image via dailymail.co.ukElsemiek de Borst was with her mother, stepfather and brother on their way to a holiday in Malaysia when the aircraft crashed in eastern Ukraine
lsemiek, pictured here with her father Hans de Borst, was among 193 Dutch nationals to die when flight MH17 was blown out of the sky. She died alongside her mother, step-father and step-brother.
Image via dailymail.co.ukElsemiek de Borst, 17, was killed alongside her mother, step-brother and step-father when the Boeing 777 passenger plane they were travelling on was shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine by a surface-to-air missile last Thursday.
dailymail.co.ukOverwhelmed by grief and anger, the Dutch father has penned a grief-stricken open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin via Facebook
Overwhelmed by grief and anger, the Dutch father has penned a distraught open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin via Facebook.
Image via imgur.comThe letter that was originally written in Dutch started with him thanking the Kremlin president for murdering his little girl
The letter that was originally written in Dutch started with him thanking the Kremlin president for murdering his little girl
Image via wordpress.com"Thank you very much mister Putin, leaders of the separatists or the Ukraine government! For murdering my loved and only child, Elsemiek de Borst! She was 17 years old, 5th "gymnasium" student at the "Segbroek College" in Den Haag. And she was on her way to her holiday in Maleisië together with her little brother, her mom (my ex-wife) and her stepfather."
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Borst shares the hopes and dreams that Elsemiek once had. Elsemiek was about to graduate from school with her best friends and had wanted to become an engineer.
"Elsemiek would have done her final school exams next year, together with her best friend Julia and Marina, she did so good in school! After that she wanted to go to the "Technical University Delft" to study engineering, she was looking forward to it!"
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"I hope you're proud to have shot her, amongst other, young life and future. And that you will be able to look at yourself in the mirror tomorrow morning."
"I hope you're proud to have shot her, amongst other, young life and future. And that you will be able to look at yourself in the mirror tomorrow morning."
Image via wordpress.com"But suddenly she is not here anymore! She has been shot out of the sky, in an unknown country, where there is a war going on! Aforementioned misters, I hope you're proud to have shot her, amongst other, young life and future. And that you will be able to look at yourself in the mirror tomorrow."
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