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Dalai Lama condemns Tibet crackdown

Hundreds of police have been been deployed
on the streets of the Tibetan capital [AFP]
The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, has called for an international inquiry into what he calls China's "rule of terror" and "cultural genocide" in Tibet.

Speaking from Dharmsala in northern India on Sunday, he said: "They [the Chinese] simply rely on using force in order to simulate peace, a peace brought by force using a rule of terror."

Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, meanwhile was quiet but tense two days after Tibetans torched buildings and stoned Chinese residents in the fiercest challenge to Beijing's rule over the region in nearly two decades.

Hundreds of police and soldiers patrolled the streets, enforcing a strict curfew.