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The outburst by 30 monks at Lhasa's holiest shrine dealt a setback to the government's plans to use a three-day trip for foreign reporters to show that protests and deadly anti-Chinese rioting in the Tibetan capital two weeks ago had subsided.
U.S. President George W. Bush and Australia's new prime minister, Kevin Rudd, said Friday they want Chinese leaders to meet with the [Dalai Lama], Tibet's exiled but still revered leader, to defuse tensions.On Friday, the Dalai Lama reiterated that he supported Beijing's holding of the Olympics but decried state media's depiction of the protests, which has dwelled on violence against Chinese.See the full content of this document
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Tibetans Won't Toe Chinese Line
Monks speak out to foreign reporters
:By Charles HutzlerLHASA, China -- China's Tibet problem got a human face this week in images of crying, red-robed monks, ...See the full content of this document
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