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March 19th, 2008
Tourist video shows Friday’s rioting in Tibetan capital
Posted: 07:36 AM ET
(CNN) — An Australian tourist traveling in Tibet when anti-Chinese rioting broke out last Friday returned home this week with dramatic video that gives the world the first independent look at the violence in the streets of the Tibetan capital Lhasa.
“We’re standing here in the middle of Lhasa and the place has just (expletive) exploded,” tourist Michael Smith said in narration recorded as the riot was happening.
Tibetan exile groups claim at least 80 people were killed by Chinese security forces that day, but Chinese authorities insist they acted with restraint and killed no one. Instead, China says 13 “innocent people” were killed, some brutally burned, by the Tibetan rioters.
The video shows Tibetans smashing windows and setting fire to Chinese shops and cars, while others are heard cheering. Chinese security forces are seen, but there are no clashes between them and the rioters shown.
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