India held that Sri Lanka would have to fix accountability for the alleged violation of human rights and torture of Tamils and assure a sustainable settlement of issues pertaining to them.

The UNHRC (United Nations Human Rights Commission) has took up for discussion a U.S.-sponsored resolution on issues related to Sri Lanka.

The External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid expressed concern at the averred brutal killing of LTTE chief Prabhakaran’s 12-year-old son Balachandran even as DMK and AIADMK tried for an independent probe into it by an international agency.