UK. Following that he met several parliamentarians in London and discussed about human rights violation and crimes against humanity and advocated for justice for the victims in 2009. In April 2016, he delivered a speech about human right violation by Sri Lankan government and the final days of the war in a symposium organized by the Boston Amnesty International in New York. In May 2019, he was invited to the Canadian parliament as a guest speaker at the screening of Callum Macrae’s documentary "No Fire Zone" on the tenth year of Mullivaikal and Tamil genocide Remembrance Day and shared his war zone experiences. Awards and recognition Finalist for Robert Burns Humanitarian Awards 2021, https://www.scottishlegal.com/article/robert-burns-humanitarian-award-2021-finalists-revealed . Ilankai Tamil Sangam USA on behalf of the Tamil American Community awarded their highest recognition award of “Lifetime Service Award” in 2017 for his courageous service to humanity and for his acts of valor in the face of oppression, intimidation, and violence. His memoirs, titled “A Note from The No Fire Zone” and written Kass Ghayouri was published in May 2019. His biography written as a book, title "Untold Truth of Tamil Genocide (Biography of Dr.T.Varatharajah) and written Raji Patterson was published in 2021 The movie “ The Lamp of Truth” (www.thelampoftruth.com) was produced based on Dr Varatharajah’s war zone experiences and he played his own role in the movie. White Conch Studios, Ambuli Media, and TransImage jointly worked together to deliver this movie which was released in 2020. He gave several media interviews, most notably for Channel 4, BBC, IBC London, Aljazeera, Lankasri, Canadian media such as CTR, EyeTamil Montreal, Parai, India’s Ananda Vikatan, Tamilguardian, Samakalam, Tamilnet, Tamilwin, TamilCNN, Ilakku, Urimai, SKY news and Sri Lankan local news media on the plight of the refugees and war-affected people of Sri Lanka. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Tamils for Obama, for having worked in tough war-torn conditions in Sri Lanka during the final and bloodiest phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War 2009. Currently he has been nominated for 2020 Sydney Peace Prize for the same reason. References Sri Lankan activists Sri Lankan medical doctors 1975 births Living people