YOURSAY ‘After this, it is time to bring justice to the victims.'

M'sia mourns as MH17 victims come home

Kubang: My dear departed countrymen, your loved ones and your country welcome you home. May you rest in peace.

Appum: A sad day indeed for all Malaysians. A big thank you to the government for all the effort to bring back the remains of our fellow Malaysians. Sometimes a tragedy can unite all of us. Let's hope this one would.

Abasir: It is indeed a sad day when a nation requires collective grief to bind its people as one. Those we respectfully and rightly honour today are human beings of differing faiths and political beliefs.

Makcik Har: Goodbye my love, goodbye, goodbye and au revoir. As long as you remember me I'll never be too far. In the winds sings a sad old song, it knows I'm leaving you today. Please don't cry, my heart will break when I go on my way.

Goodbye my love, goodbye, I always will be true, so hold me in your dreams till I come back to you. See the stars in the skies above, they shine wherever I roam. I will pray every lonely night but soon they will guide me home.

Goodbye my love, goodbye, goodbye and au revoir! As long as you remember me I’ll never be too far, goodbye my love...

Justice Kini: This is really the Malaysian way. Let the souls of the deceased rest in peace.

Politicians and NGOs are obviously the main cause of Malaysians divided along race lines. Kick out the bad policies and laws, let Malaysians live in peace with good federal government and state governments.

Nonbeliever: If you are kind with your words, thoughts and deeds; God is unnecessary.

If you are evil with your words, thoughts and deeds; 10 gods are useless. What is God to the believer is conscience to the agnostics.

Day of Mourning - timeline of MH17 tragedy

CQ MUAR: I was having dinner in a local eatery one night (recently), and heard the heart-rending sound of bugles playing ‘The Last Post’ over television.

It was showing clippings of the MH17 tragedy; shots of dignitaries, VIPs, presumably family members of victims and PM Najib Abdul Razak weeping openly. It was indeed a sombre scene, and rather moving to say the least.

However, on the following day, it was entirely a different scenario altogether - I was somewhat shocked to watch on TV Najib and his beloved wife Rosmah Mansor boarding our official government jet, smiling and waving farewell to those VIPs gathered to wish them a pleasant vacation.

What a sharp contrast of the two clippings, when bereaved families are still awaiting the return of their loved ones. Call it crocodile tears, if you may.

However, at such a moment, and on behalf of many true Malaysians, we dedicate ‘The Last Post’ to all victims who perished in the tragedy, leaving their families to grieve and pained by their untimely loss. May God bless them all.

Anonymous_40f4: Mourning, yes, but as usual the sordid affair has been turned into hype and propaganda at taxpayers’ expense.

Now the plane bringing back the dead remains avoided the war zone, it cost them a little more fuel. Why didn’t MH17 do the same, avoid the war zone and all its passengers would be alive?

There will be no closure until this issue is addressed. But in Kangkongland you don’t expect all that. It will be allowed to be washed away with time.

Thousands gather to share nation's sorrow

Alitstar: Thank you, Malaysia, for following the precedent set by the Netherlands - a very emotional reception and the honourable conduct of the military in sending them off to their final resting place.

Bystander: After this funeral service, it is time to bring justice to the victims. Whoever involved directly or indirectly in the downing of MH17 must face the full wrath of the laws and be punished accordingly.

Snake-in-the-grass: Some say the nation is united in grief. Oh dear, about 20 persons died on Malaysian roads today, and not a word for them?

Tomorrow, and every day, 20 more will perish, making it more than 6,000 a year... we need 10-minute silence for them, every day.

Anonymous_1391570393: We mourn. We share the sorrow with their love ones. May Allah bless them with His mercy and place them among the ‘syuhada’ (martyrs).

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