"17 July 2014, starting our new hijrah, Alhamdulillah," was Ariza Ghazalee's cheery last post on her Facebook account. It was uploaded with a picture of neatly arranged luggage, before her departure on the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

Her husband Tambi Jiee and four children Muhammad Afif Tambi, Muhammad Afzal Tambi, Marsha Azmeena Tambi and Muhammad Afruz Tambi were with her.

They were among the 298 innocent people on board the Boeing 777 aircraft which was shot down enroute to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam. None survived.

Two years have since passed, but the posting still lingered in the mind of Zulrusdi Mohamad Hol, her cousin.

Zulrusdi and his family are still waiting for justice to be served on the perpetrators of the heinous crime.

He said despite his family's grief, they would continue to seek for justice.

"There has been absolutely no justice served. We have been waiting very patiently for answers but sadly till now no transparency has been seen. Those who committed this evil act are still out there, running free.

"We want to know who did this. Those who were involved should be punished. It seems those involved in the investigation are practically silent. After a while people would tend to forget about it and we don't want this to happen," he told Bernama.

MH17 was shot down while cruising at an altitude of 30,000ft and crashed in an area of tension in Ukraine, near the Russian border.

Last year, the chairperson of thr Dutch Safety Board, Tjibbe Joustra, confirmed that it was shot down by a Buk surface-to-air missile over eastern Ukraine.

The report came out after 15 months of investigation undertaken by a joint team from the Netherlands, Ukraine, Malaysia, Australia, United Kingdom, the United States and Russia.

Meanwhile, when asked about how he and his family members were coping with the loss of their loved ones, Zulrusdi said it was a sad event that they thought about every day.

"But as Muslims we can only pray for them, we accept their fate. We may seem cool and calm in our daily lives, but deep in our hearts we feel sorrow and pain," he said.

On efforts that has been undertaken by the government towards the investigation, he hoped that more aggressive steps could be taken in bringing those responsible for the crime to justice.

"They must pressure the International Court of Justice to expedite the investigation," he added.

Munirah Mustafa, 54, whose sister, Mastura was a stewardess on board MH17, could still vividly recall the last message her sister sent to her via WhatsApp before boarding MH17 at Amsterdam.

"She (Mastura) said she wanted to cook 'sambal tempoyak' when she returned home. She asked me to care of myself. I never thought it was going to be her last request," she said.

When asked how their father, Mustafa Abdul Samad, 84, was coping with the loss of his daughter, she said that he did not show his sadness but deep inside, he missed her.

Munirah said this year's Hari Raya Aidilfitri was celebrated moderately as this was the first time that the MH17 anniversary fell during Syawal.

- Bernama