Nisha Desai Biswal, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs in the United States Department of State and Michele J. Sison, US ambassador to Sri Lanka are looking at the portraits of slain staff of the Uthayan newspaper while E. Saravanapavan, Managing Director of the newspaper explaining something at the newspaper's office in Jaffna on 1 February 2014. One of the bullet holes is visible on the wall behind them.