https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Power-changes-hands-not-for-the-better https://internationalviewpoint.org/Power-changes-hands-not-for-the-better 2002-02-09T00:00:00Z text/html en V Thirunavakkarasu Sri Lanka <p>On December 5, 2001 elections to Sri Lanka's 12th Parliament concluded - marred by unprecedented violence that tragically claimed the lives of at least 50. The single worst incident was on the day of the election itself, when ten Muslim youth accompanying ballot boxes to the counting station were pursued and then gunned down by hirelings of a senior Cabinet Minister.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV337-January-February-2002-" rel="directory">IV337 - January/February 2002</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Sri-Lanka-+" rel="tag">Sri Lanka</a>