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Finland Demands Full Mexican Inquiry Into Killing
 Brett Young - Reuters
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April 30, 2010
| | People stand over the casket containing the body of human rights activist Carino during a wake ceremony in Huajuapan de Leon, Mexico, late Wednesday, April 28, 2010. (AP/Luis Alberto Hernandez) | |
Helsinki - Finland has demanded that Mexico carry out a full investigation into the shooting death of a Finnish human rights activist this week, the Nordic country said on Friday.
Finnish human rights observer Jyri Jaakkola and Beatriz Carino, Mexican director of the rights group CACTUS, died when gunmen attacked a convoy of some 30 rights workers on Tuesday.
The convoy was trying to deliver food and supplies to San Juan Copala in the impoverished state of Oaxaca, where tensions have been building between towns of indigenous Triqui people.
Finland said it had asked Mexico to launch a full inquiry.
"The Finnish Embassy in Mexico has conveyed the same demands to the Secretary General and the Interior Minister of the state of Oaxaca," Finland's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"So far, local authorities have not provided information as to which of the armed groups active in the area is responsible for the killing," it said.
"Finland condemns the violence and demands that those responsible are brought to trial," the ministry said.
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