the shortage of medical and food supplies. He contacted the ICRC to transfer critically injured and ill people out from the war zone via boats. This way, around 10,000 injured people were saved while raising the awareness of the humanitarian and human right crisis to the world. Detention and media appearances During the last days of the war, he was in the “No-Fire Zone” attending patients at the Mullivaikkal hospital. Following a severe injury in his shoulder and abdomen due to non-stop shelling, he was arrested by the army on 15 May 2009 and detained for about 100 days after the end of the war. He was kept at an unknown location and denied medical treatment for his paralyzed arm and lung filled with blood which led to septic fever due to war injuries. On 23 May 2009, he was taken to the fourth floor of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). On 8 July 2009, doctors, who had stayed in the war zone including Dr. Varatharajah was paraded in front of media and forced to deny their reporting from the war zone. Suresh Sallay has been identified as the military intelligence officer responsible for coercing Dr. Varatharajah to give false testimony. After being released from prison, Dr. Varatharajah contacted UN and other human right groups explaining what happened to them and the situation forcing them to lie in front of government paraded media conference in Colombo. He also requested the UN and other human rights groups to record the truth. Human right activism In December 2011, award winning and a well-known journalist, Callum Macrae from Channel 4 media interviewed Dr. Varatharajah in New York about Sri Lanka’s human rights violations and war crimes. In 2013, he participated and provided his testimony as a witness to the Permanent People’s Tribunal in Bremen, Germany in front of a list of panelists from former UN representatives. In 2014, he went to UN at Geneva and provided a speech at a human rights session and participated at a side event as well. As a Human Rights Watch sponsored member, he spoke at the UN General Assembly too. Channel 4 UK interviewed him and broadcast it to raise awareness for justice for the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during 2009. In May 2015, Dr. Varatharajah participated in the 6th anniversary of the Tamil genocide in 2009 and provided a public speech in London,