KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - It was not an aide or a diplomat on the phone with pro-Russian rebels, trying to get them to relinquish the bodies and the "black boxes" from the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine - it was the leader of Malaysia himself.
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Malaysians hold up banners during a rally outside the Russian embassy in Kuala Lumpur on July 22, 2014.
