by Marcelle Hopkins, AlJazeera, May 17, 2014
![Beyond the beach: Sri Lanka, 5 years on](/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/image.adapt_.200.high_.1400349800761.jpg)
Five years after one of the bloodiest conflicts in recent history, Sri Lanka hovers between war and peace, as a profoundly traumatised population grapples with creeping militarisation, continuing ethnic divisions and a crackdown on dissent.
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