I was born on 16th March 1978 a second
son of five children’s northern Sri
Lanka and a Tamil family we all live
together
my grandpa grandma parents my brother
and sisters when I was five years old
a civil war sri lanka began everything
changed I don’t know how many time we
we have no sleep and every time when we
my sister my oldest sister she began to
be kidney failure Maidan in the Civil
War there was only one Hospital the
northern Sri Lanka
yes now I can remember my mom and me
with my sister we spent a lot of time in
the hospital to see one doctor it wasn’t
possible every time a lot of people are
waiting when she was 12 years she needed
dialysis there’s no medicine no dialysis
finish my sex class in the school it
wasn’t possible for me to go to school
but he changes I started with my dad on
the street died to tell Raja tables
frogs and girls a line to get money when
I become 12 years lot of kids it’s worth
going to fight again the government it’s
also dangerous lot of turf years boys
was killed then literally my mom asked
me to go to German I said ok come from
Sri Lanka not to talk to capital Colombo
and my mom find a smuggler she get the
money from my uncle who lived in Hamburg
and she also said that one of the land
to get the money she paid the guy the
smuggler toid us he will bring me within
5 days to Europe on 6 January 991 my mom
stand front of me she can eat I started
to crying and that moment I understand
I’m going alone not with my mom I have
to promise my mom three things don’t
drink alcohol don’t smoke and come back
as a doctor I started my journey
from Colombo to Singapore from Singapore
to Dubai from Dubai to Togo six months I
spent more than six months with more
than 200 Tamil people who on the way to
Europe then across the border from Togo
to Ghana after four weeks came back to
Togo to Benin Nigeria in the night 9th
September 1991 after 8th month come we
have Spain with the flight to Germany I
landed transferred come to Hamburg to my
uncle it’s a nice picture Mickey Mouse I
went to school I learned German language
a few months later I never believed I
was class representative then school
Speaker I get a letter letter from
government my Aslam was projected I lost
my control I had no power I stand in the
relief our 11th floor building I wanted
to jump I saw images of my family my
grandma grandma my mom I have to keep
the promise next day I went to school
and I told everybody my story my
classmate my teachers
and everybody helped me they paid my
lawyer and my classroom teacher he paid
everything for me I can’t continue my
school and I finished it after I started
2006 I wrote my first book the lonely
escape I want to say Germany why I come
here and how it’s very important the
first time when I come here I didn’t
understand German so I can’t now I
wanted to give the refugees voice the
people have to understand what the
people are why people are coming to us
when they understand they will open the
door I dedicated this book for my German
father
I never believed when I was 12 years on
the street side to selling vegetable and
fruit in Gaza line that one time my goal
my dream will happen it’s happened
because I’m here in Germany I can
remember the whispering of my mom when
we read it in the room to get
appointment with the doctor she said one
time when we get the doctor in our
family that we’re great it’s powerful
it’s powerful words that was a
inspiration the energy for me that I
need to finish my medical school the
same time 2008 I get German citizen I
wanted I wanted to be a part of my
society and I get it I was so happy and
make a big party yes 2014 when it come
from my work home I recall miss Coit
from New York Toronto London my brothers
and sister living there and from Sri
Lanka and from Hamburg my dad passed
away
I’m a doctor I had no chance to help in
a Hindu traditional I have to be there
but I don’t want to go I don’t want to
go to Sri Lanka to the country with a
military kid lot of Tamil people the end
of the war in my 2009 I never wanted to
leave Germany but I did it I did it for
the culture of my parents I went
we have five nationality I am German my
mom is willing Caen my parents and every
kids out of the country
my brother is American living in New
York or one sister is Canadian living in
Toronto another one in London British
here we are all together after 24 years
it was a bad situation my bar that was
passed away but what’s great come
together I have to put the fire on the
body
it’s the traditional I learned the
culture where was born the culture of my
parents adding everything to give the
last respect for my dad one week later
before I am leave I show my mom she’s a
powerful mom but she had no smile the
background under the mango cream which I
planted with my dad and sister 28 years
ago asked mom can you remember 6 January
991 mom I never drink I call I never
touch a secret now I am a doctor teach
my and I come back to home to Hamburg I
have a new dream me go I wanted to be a
cardiac surgeon
I think Karthik says not cool so why not
I started in the hospital in the
University Hospital in Hamburg I was the
speed
for the doctors and I come Parliament
members for the doctors Parliament’s it
names in German gets a comma after so
many years my training didn’t end the
clinic support also Germans but other
Germans I asked them they said for you
it’s a no I never want to be a victim of
discrimination a war or a sis most
because of my color because of my sexual
orientation no I never want to forget my
own team my own goal I take another way
I leave my hometown Hamburg I went to
Bavaria now I can say next year I was
finished I will be a car accident 2017
yeah
Varia 2017 I wrote my second book render
torture the Fallen German why look at me
I came here as a little mango tree with
little roots you can’t bring tea with
our foods now I’m bigger I’m a big mango
tree
I can’t look like a German work but you
can’t be bigger when you don’t have new
roots I have it my roots are from German
look nobody can see that when the people
are starting to talk with me then they
will know oh it’s not the only a mango P
no that’s what I want to do I want to
make better communication between the
people who are coming to us the people
who are living here I don’t want to be
only the part of our society
I will help shape the society in the
future in the past on my way to catch
the team and guys it wasn’t easy there’s
a lot of stone I fell down but a lot of
people who helped me it’s okay to go to
ask them to help friends family teachers
neighbors I will give you the power
inspiration for your own goals and dream
the life is so beautiful life it would
go and catch your own goals and dreams
and you have then you can give for the
next generation the motivation and the
power thank you
[Applause] [Music]
son of five children’s northern Sri
Lanka and a Tamil family we all live
together
my grandpa grandma parents my brother
and sisters when I was five years old
a civil war sri lanka began everything
changed I don’t know how many time we
we have no sleep and every time when we
my sister my oldest sister she began to
be kidney failure Maidan in the Civil
War there was only one Hospital the
northern Sri Lanka
yes now I can remember my mom and me
with my sister we spent a lot of time in
the hospital to see one doctor it wasn’t
possible every time a lot of people are
waiting when she was 12 years she needed
dialysis there’s no medicine no dialysis
finish my sex class in the school it
wasn’t possible for me to go to school
but he changes I started with my dad on
the street died to tell Raja tables
frogs and girls a line to get money when
I become 12 years lot of kids it’s worth
going to fight again the government it’s
also dangerous lot of turf years boys
was killed then literally my mom asked
me to go to German I said ok come from
Sri Lanka not to talk to capital Colombo
and my mom find a smuggler she get the
money from my uncle who lived in Hamburg
and she also said that one of the land
to get the money she paid the guy the
smuggler toid us he will bring me within
5 days to Europe on 6 January 991 my mom
stand front of me she can eat I started
to crying and that moment I understand
I’m going alone not with my mom I have
to promise my mom three things don’t
drink alcohol don’t smoke and come back
as a doctor I started my journey
from Colombo to Singapore from Singapore
to Dubai from Dubai to Togo six months I
spent more than six months with more
than 200 Tamil people who on the way to
Europe then across the border from Togo
to Ghana after four weeks came back to
Togo to Benin Nigeria in the night 9th
September 1991 after 8th month come we
have Spain with the flight to Germany I
landed transferred come to Hamburg to my
uncle it’s a nice picture Mickey Mouse I
went to school I learned German language
a few months later I never believed I
was class representative then school
Speaker I get a letter letter from
government my Aslam was projected I lost
my control I had no power I stand in the
relief our 11th floor building I wanted
to jump I saw images of my family my
grandma grandma my mom I have to keep
the promise next day I went to school
and I told everybody my story my
classmate my teachers
and everybody helped me they paid my
lawyer and my classroom teacher he paid
everything for me I can’t continue my
school and I finished it after I started
2006 I wrote my first book the lonely
escape I want to say Germany why I come
here and how it’s very important the
first time when I come here I didn’t
understand German so I can’t now I
wanted to give the refugees voice the
people have to understand what the
people are why people are coming to us
when they understand they will open the
door I dedicated this book for my German
father
I never believed when I was 12 years on
the street side to selling vegetable and
fruit in Gaza line that one time my goal
my dream will happen it’s happened
because I’m here in Germany I can
remember the whispering of my mom when
we read it in the room to get
appointment with the doctor she said one
time when we get the doctor in our
family that we’re great it’s powerful
it’s powerful words that was a
inspiration the energy for me that I
need to finish my medical school the
same time 2008 I get German citizen I
wanted I wanted to be a part of my
society and I get it I was so happy and
make a big party yes 2014 when it come
from my work home I recall miss Coit
from New York Toronto London my brothers
and sister living there and from Sri
Lanka and from Hamburg my dad passed
away
I’m a doctor I had no chance to help in
a Hindu traditional I have to be there
but I don’t want to go I don’t want to
go to Sri Lanka to the country with a
military kid lot of Tamil people the end
of the war in my 2009 I never wanted to
leave Germany but I did it I did it for
the culture of my parents I went
we have five nationality I am German my
mom is willing Caen my parents and every
kids out of the country
my brother is American living in New
York or one sister is Canadian living in
Toronto another one in London British
here we are all together after 24 years
it was a bad situation my bar that was
passed away but what’s great come
together I have to put the fire on the
body
it’s the traditional I learned the
culture where was born the culture of my
parents adding everything to give the
last respect for my dad one week later
before I am leave I show my mom she’s a
powerful mom but she had no smile the
background under the mango cream which I
planted with my dad and sister 28 years
ago asked mom can you remember 6 January
991 mom I never drink I call I never
touch a secret now I am a doctor teach
my and I come back to home to Hamburg I
have a new dream me go I wanted to be a
cardiac surgeon
I think Karthik says not cool so why not
I started in the hospital in the
University Hospital in Hamburg I was the
speed
for the doctors and I come Parliament
members for the doctors Parliament’s it
names in German gets a comma after so
many years my training didn’t end the
clinic support also Germans but other
Germans I asked them they said for you
it’s a no I never want to be a victim of
discrimination a war or a sis most
because of my color because of my sexual
orientation no I never want to forget my
own team my own goal I take another way
I leave my hometown Hamburg I went to
Bavaria now I can say next year I was
finished I will be a car accident 2017
yeah
Varia 2017 I wrote my second book render
torture the Fallen German why look at me
I came here as a little mango tree with
little roots you can’t bring tea with
our foods now I’m bigger I’m a big mango
tree
I can’t look like a German work but you
can’t be bigger when you don’t have new
roots I have it my roots are from German
look nobody can see that when the people
are starting to talk with me then they
will know oh it’s not the only a mango P
no that’s what I want to do I want to
make better communication between the
people who are coming to us the people
who are living here I don’t want to be
only the part of our society
I will help shape the society in the
future in the past on my way to catch
the team and guys it wasn’t easy there’s
a lot of stone I fell down but a lot of
people who helped me it’s okay to go to
ask them to help friends family teachers
neighbors I will give you the power
inspiration for your own goals and dream
the life is so beautiful life it would
go and catch your own goals and dreams
and you have then you can give for the
next generation the motivation and the
power thank you
[Applause] [Music]
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