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UK has always been at the top of the list for training and migration for me (I have relatives there, and I loved the country when I visited). I love my own country, and I would genuinely love to be here, but I am gay, and it's criminalised here. Needing a way out of the homophobic family is my main reason to migrate. We are also the third most underpaid country for doctors.

Anyway, even after the PLAB pathway closed off, I still had hopes for the MTI pathway since that program had established routes with my country's own speciality training pathway. Now I am starting to worry I'll end up stuck here, and it's very depressing.

What are the next options you are looking at? US? Australia? Is there a reason you prefer one country over the other?

From my research, I've realised that the US is mainly good for primary care specialities, and the process is the most expensive and unpredictable.

Australia seems to be much easier to get to as a medical officer, but getting into speciality training (especially the more competitive ones) seems difficult (and requires PR, which also takes a good while). Of course, there is the option to migrate as a specialist but that would be around 2036, and I'm worried that the specialist migration pathways will close down by then and I'll be stuck here.

I'm at a loss here, I'd love to hear your plan Bs and advices

So recently, there's renewed talk about the separation of the North. Not just to become a sovereign state, but even with all this talk about becoming a part of India. Northern Tamils are very much celebrating the victory of Vijay, who famously promised to annex the North. That clown Archuna is talking about handing it over, and there is renewed pressure from India about the land bridge between the two countries. And I see more and more Tamil people claiming that the entire island was a Tamil-speaking land and that it belongs to them.

And ever since the issue in Palestine started, I see the word genocide being thrown around a lot. IMO, there was no genocide. Even the UN report has not called it a genocide. There were war crimes and unexpected civilian deaths in crossfires, yes, but if the agenda of the Sri Lankan govt was to genocide the Tamil people, they could have very much done it. But that wasn't the case, no? There were Tamil people living and working throughout the country, studying and teaching in Sri Lankan universities. I was literally raised by Tamil domestic workers. There were times when the army literally rescued Tamil civilians who were being used as human shields. That is not what a genocide looks like. I feel like people throw around the word without knowing its meaning.

But I am Sinhalese, so I need to know your opinion, especially that of the Tamil folks from the North. Do you think of it as a genocide? Do you still want a separation from the rest of Sri Lanka? Would you rather be part of Tamil Nadu? Do you also believe in the narrative that this was historically a Tamil-speaking island before Vijay (the prince) and therefore belongs to you? If so, what is the fate you want for the Sinhalese people in your ideal Tamil nationalist state?

Because honestly, I feel like Tamil people don't want peace or reconciliation or a unified identity. That it’s just the Sinhalese who seem to want such a thing. Since this is an anonymous platform, please speak your mind. Also, I would really appreciate it if those who live abroad stay out of this. I want to hear from those who actually live here.