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   Le Monde diplomatique 

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                            April 2002

                          In this issue:
   Israel-Palestine, coming together; Milosevic trial, the man
    and the court; Italy, revamped industries, silent writers;
    Cyprus, preparing for the EU; China, Tiananmen revisited;
     the EU, never mind the people; Chechnya, Russia's still
   there plus John Berger on Turkey's great poet, Axel Kahn on
   the Mount of Olives and Mahmoud Darwish from Palestine under
                              siege


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Peace gets buried

by IGNACIO RAMONET

                               Translated by Malcolm Greenwood

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/04/01peace>


AN ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE COALITION

The do-it-ourselves solution

by YASSER ABED RABBO and YOSSI BEILIN

     For the founders of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace
     Coalition, there is a possible way out of the present
     murderous impasse in the region: a return to the
     agreement drawn up at Taba in January 2001. Two of those
     who drew it up, one Israeli and one Palestinian, propose
     an alternative way forward.

                                      Original text in English

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/04/02solution>


State of siege *

MAHMOUD DARWISH

          Translated from Arabic by Saloua Ben Abda and Hassan
                                                         Shami
                               and from French by Julie Stoker



Getting on, getting by *

by AXEL KAHN

                              Translated by Wendy Kristianasen



MILOSEVIC IN THE DOCK

The Balkans show trial *

by our special correspondent CATHERINE SAMARY

     Yugoslavia's former president, Slobodan Milosevic, has
     regained some popularity since the start of his trial for
     war crimes. The contradictions are now becoming apparent
     in the approach and remit of the International Criminal
     Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. And the role of the
     West in the break-up of that country is being publicly
     questioned.

                               Translated by Malcolm Greenwood



The case for the war crimes tribunal *

by XAVIER BOUGAREL

     The Hague trial of Milosevic is necessary but reveals the
     limits of such proceedings, since the court does not
     operate in isolation from historical events and is not
     immune to local and world political power struggles.

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford



The case against the Hague court

by CATHERINE SAMARY

                                  Translated by Barbara Wilson

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/04/07hague>


US breaks the laws of war

by OLIVIER AUDEOUD

     The United States has invented a new category of captive,
     not covered by the Geneva Convention: 'unlawful
     combatants'. And it has made sure that nobody can
     question this unilateral designation by holding the
     prisoners taken in Afghanistan in the
     no-nation's-territory of the Guantanamo base on Cuba.
     What, legally, is going on?

                                  Translated by Barbara Wilson

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/04/08breach>


REUNITING A DIVIDED ISLAND

Cyprus, north and south

by our special correspondent NIELS KADRITZKE

     Final negotiations about the future of Cyprus began this
     year; it has been divided since 1974. Cyprus is a
     contender for EU membership, but to get in, Greeks and
     Turks will have to agree on its status, and Ankara will
     have to approve. Brussels has promised substantial
     funding for the Turkish north.

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/04/09cyprus>


THE OTHER 'ANTI-TERRORIST' WAR

Chechnya: Russia, get out now *

by VICKEN CHETERIAN

     Moscow is still stuck in the Chechen quagmire, despite
     all its claims that it is dealing with the 'terrorism'.
     Russian army atrocities have failed to crush resistance,
     Chechens no longer collaborate; both sides will have to
     return to negotiating a settlement, and better sooner
     than later.

                               Translated by Malcolm Greenwood



Chronology of two conflicts *

                               Translated by Malcolm Greenwood



THE BERLUSCONI EFFECT

High price of Italian prosperity *

by PIERRE MUSSO

     Two million people took to the streets of Rome last month
     to protest against terrorism, against economist Marco
     Biagi's assassination and against Sylvio Berlusconi's
     government. Behind the protest and beyond the politics,
     Italian capitalism is being profoundly restructured.

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford



Silence of the leopards *

by VALERIO EVANGELISTI

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford



WE DIDN'T VOTE FOR LIBERALISING UTILITIES, DID WE?

Europe: market not community *

by BERNARD CASSEN

     The European Union's decision-taking bypasses Europeans
     and their elected representatives to impose on them
     neo-liberal, anti-social economic policies, all in the
     name of Europe. The EU regularly overrides democracy for
     the benefit of private wealth and influence.

                               Translated by Malcolm Greenwood



HOW TIANANMEN PROTESTS LED TO THE NEW MARKET ECONOMY

China: unequal shares *

by WANG HUI

     The crushing of the 1989 social movement in Tiananmen
     Square was a turning point in Chinese history. The
     movement was far bigger than the liberal, student protest
     we all saw before the world's news cameras; it extended
     right across the people. The destruction of the movement
     unblocked China's transition to the market economy, but
     the state system remained fundamentally authoritarian and
     inequalities have grown.

                                      Original text in English



NAZIM HIKMET: CENTENARY OF A GREAT POET

The tree with blue eyes *

by JOHN BERGER

     Nazim Hikmet, one of the greatest poets of the 20th
     century, Turkish, a communist, was born 100 years ago.
     His work is about the universal nature of love and the
     fraternity of beauty; he was one of those rare people who
     matched his actions with words.

                                      Original text in English




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