He went to Sri Lanka and volunteered his services in the North, 6 weeks after the tsunami. He returned 6 months later for a follow up visit. The peace agreement was in force then. But civil war broke out again, he was sad. In a speech delivered at a peace rally at the Capitol Hill-Washington DC on July 23, 2007 he was emotional and questioned the madness of Sinhala government for being so inhuman to the Tamil people. He quoted instances of grave injustices meted out to the Tamils in the N&E.