Another tragedy on another level
This war crime is awful on so many levels. One of the world's leading experts in HIV was on the plane en route to the World AIDS conference in Australia, together with a few other researchers. Joep Lange was one of the eminent researchers in the field (not mine), heavily involved in development of novel therapies. As one person on Twitter wrote: "The solution to the AIDS pandemic may have been on that plane..."
Not to mention the 80 or so children. Sad,sad days.