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Monks Spoil China's PR Tour  

Posted Mar 27, 08 11:37 AM CDT in World    Editor's Choice

(newser) – Tibetan monks burst into a carefully choreographed Chinese media event yesterday, breaking the image of restored calm China had hoped to project. China had allowed a small group of foreign reporters into the region, but even as one monk at Lhasa’s Jokhang Temple was expounding on the return to normalcy, 30 younger monks burst in, shouting “We want a free Tibet!”

Some of the monks were crying as they accused the authorities of lying, reports the Financial Times. “We know we will probably be arrested, but we have to keep fighting,” said one monk. China had hoped the tour would provide an international PR boost. Foreign media have been barred from Tibet ever since trouble began there.

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Monks Spoil China's PR Tour
Chinese paramilitary police patrol on a street in Lhasa, capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Thursday, March 27, 2008. A government-managed visit by foreign reporters to Tibet's capital backfired...   (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Monks Spoil China's PR Tour
A Tibetan Buddhist monk, center, cries while he speak to foreign journalists during their visit to the Jokhang Temple, March 27, 2008.   (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Monks Spoil China's PR Tour
Police detain Tibetan protesters as they try to rally against China's crackdown on Tibet outside the Chinese Embassy's visa office, in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday March 27, 2008.   (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)
Monks Spoil China's PR Tour
An arrested rioter cries while speaking to foreign journalists at a prison in Lhasa, capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region Thursday, March 27, 2008.   (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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