Holland did not declare a day of national mourning since the death of Queen Wilhelmina in 1962 Plunged into a collective trauma, the country Wednesday honored its 193 fellow passengers dead along with nine other 105 nationalities in MH17 flight from Malaysia Airlines. The first 40 bodies left Kharkov, Ukraine country which was flying the plane when it was derribado-, morning and arrived at Dutch airport Eindhoven afternoon aboard two military flights: a Dutch and an Australian Hercules C17 that he joined the operation because Australia has lost 27 in a national tragedy. 
Minutes before they landed, bells across the country (including Dom Tower in Utrecht Cathedral, the highest in the country) rang in his honor. On the track waiting relatives of the victims, protected from the cameras in a special area. The kings Guillermo and Maxima, the Government, Prince Laurent of Belgium (four were victims of their country), and Julie Bishop, Australian Foreign Minister, were among those who observed a minute of silence.
Flags fluttered at half mast on public buildings and entire neighborhoods. At Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, employees and tourists surrounded the mountain flowers placed in remembrance of the dead passengers. Amusement parks stopped their machines; some theaters did the same with the projectors; trains stopped, and national television for a day removed all ads from your schedule. Mills, national symbol par excellence, put the blades in place of mourning: the bottom, which should be perpendicular to the building, was slightly tilted to the right.
At the airport in Eindhoven, the receipt of the coffins was measured to the nearest millimeter. Nine soldiers placed the coffins in hearses to door. From there, the convoy headed to Hilversum in the center of the country. The army barracks where coroners identified the bodies is outside the village, and experts can work outside the curious on a task that can last months. Difficult is expected: arrive in the country tomorrow 74 more bodies.
The emotional ceremony has not dispelled doubts about the fate of the bodies yet to pick up on Ukrainian soil. The Russian news agency Itar-Tass on Wednesday amounted to 16 who are under the fuselage. The impact zone covers 35 square kilometers, remain unprotected. Since traces may disappear essential for international investigation requested by the 10 countries that have lost nationals, Mark Rutte, Dutch prime minister, has proposed sending a police force under the UN flag. Tony Abbott, Australian Prime Minister supports you. The same does Ukraine. Together they try to include the idea of contingent plan to refer a petition to the UN. Australia is the only of the three countries represented in the Security Council.
The tragedy of the plane has also shown the functioning of Dutch policy in times of crisis. The apparent warmth of the Government when -sospechoso seek explanations from Moscow to bring the missiles that brought down the plane-has been criticized inside and outside the country. Now that all bodies, not only of his countrymen, begin to arrive, dominated by praise for the emotional well-articulated speech to the UN's Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans, asking for its return. The Hague is wounded, but is pragmatic and hardens its stance once the primary objective achieved. Always, in the framework of the EU or the UN.
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