U.K., Canada, Sweden, Ukraine sue Iran over downed jet – Winnipeg | 24CA News
The United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden and Ukraine have launched a case in opposition to Iran on the United Nation’s highest court docket over the 2020 downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet killing all 176 on board.
“It’s been a long, arduous journey for these past 42 months because of our association with the families of the victims,” stated spokesperson Kourosh Doustshenas of Winnipeg whose fiance died within the crash.
The international locations need the International Court of Justice to rule that Iran illegally shot down the Ukraine International Airlines airplane and to order Tehran to pay compensation to the households of the victims.
But for Doustshenas, an important factor is to have some closure. “We need to know the truth and we need to see justice being done. And only then we may get a measure of closure in all our lives.”
“We have asked for the truth and justice first and foremost. And unfortunately, at the very beginning, we had to fight and say, look, we are not looking for compensation.”
The passengers and crew members killed included nationals and residents of Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom, in addition to Afghanistan and Iran. Following three days of denials in In January 2020, Iran stated its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard mistakenly shot down the Ukrainian airplane with two surface-to-air missiles.
— with information from The Canadian Press
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