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NewsMail Morning Edition Mon 21 Jul, 2014 Top Stories More Top Stories » Bishop warns rebels not to use MH17 bodies as 'pawns' Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has called for the bodies of MH17 victims to stop being "used as pawns" as she lobbies the UN Security Council to support an Australian-sponsored resolution demanding access to the crash site in eastern Ukraine. Pro-Russian separatists have begun moving the bodies of victims to a refrigerated train, with their leader saying conditions in the crash zone were becoming "inhumane" as bodies decomposed in the stifling heat. Speaking in the US, where she is leading the international push for a full investigation into the shooting down of the plane, Ms Bishop said it was an utter outrage that rebels had removed the plane's black boxes and other evidence from the site. "I cannot imagine any other air crash in [recent] history where days later bodies are still laying in the field," she said. 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