This is a truly complex subject, and reasonable people can have widely divergent views on judging the behavior.
There are profound cultural issues, as well as foreign (in the widest sense) economic and social norms. I seriously doubt that "political correctness" is a driving force in the local society. Hell, the same can be said of most rural areas of Germany, France and Spain, from personal experience.
For example, it can be assumed that in the U.S., Canada and GB, everyone, pretty much everywhere, is aware that it is critical and essential to maintain an aircraft accident scene as untouched as possible to collect, analyze, evaluate and to use for future safety regulations the results of everything about an accident. That would include the precise location and condition of the smallest bit of debris and human body parts.
Clearly, in that area of Ukraine no such cultural awareness exists. There is no maliciousness in their ignorant behavior.
What is malicious, and firmly in the area of criminal behavior is the political behavior of the political and military leadership. They make Obama "transparency" look like kindergarten stuff.
The Russian's stole the black boxes from the crash site and are hiding them Moscow to stop the investigation.
Its called Russian dictator thuggery.
These are Russian military swat teams in the black masks .preventing the dead from being removed for Two days.
There were 22 grade school, kids on that plane,
look at the Russian thugs in the black masks!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
look at the innocent dead here!
there is no misunderstanding.
its called a cover up.
I tend to agree with you. In man parts of the world life is simply cheap.