Murugathasan Varnakulasingham (2 December 1982 – 13 February 2009) was a Sri Lankan Tamil, one of seven who immolated themselves to protest the treatment of Tamil people by the government of Sri Lanka.
[2] He went to Geneva from his house on Grange Avenue, Belmont, Harrow, to protest the Sri Lankan government war against the Tamils.
On 13 February 2009, after days of protesting, Varnakulasingham poured petrol over his body and killed himself at the gate of United Nations headquarters in Geneva.
[3][4][5][6] He wrote a letter explaining his choice, writing that We Tamils, displaced and all over the world, loudly raised our problems and asked for help before [the] international community in your own language for three decades.
[2][7]His family stated that they were proud of their son's action and his death was commemorated by British Tamils.