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Western governments are stepping up pressure on China to stop its violent crackdown in Tibet. Tsewang Rigzin, head of an exile group called the Tibetan Youth Congress, says his group reveres the Dalai Lama but disagrees with him on how far to go in pushing for freedom.

Residents of Litang — which is 90 percent ethnically Tibetan — are living in fear of the government's tightening control as shops are closed and the use of cars is banned. Simon Elegant, Beijing Bureau Chief for Time magazine talks with Robert Siegel.

A midnight deadline for protesters in Tibet to turn themselves over to Chinese authorities passed on Monday as residents of Lhasa braced for house-to-house searches by police following a violent crackdown that left 16 people dead, according to official figures.

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Following week-long clashes between Tibetan protesters and Chinese authorities, Tibet's governor has promised leniency to anti-Chinese demonstrators who turn themselves in before the end of the day — and harsh consequences for those who do not.

China's crackdown against Tibetan protesters has reportedly spread to neighboring provinces. Details of the protests, and Beijing's response, have been hard hard to come by due to efforts by China to stem the flow of news from the affected region.

Hundreds of people joined a week of street protests against Chinese rule led by Buddhist monks in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The rare protests started Monday to mark the 49th anniversary of an uprising against the Communist regime.

Angry Tibetans set fire to Chinese shops in the city of Lhasa Friday, after a week of protests that constituted the region's boldest challenge to Beijing's authority in nearly two decades. A witness contacted by NPR described violence against ethnic Chinese in the capital of Tibet, a formerly independent territory that was forcibly occupied by Chinese troops in 1951.

Tibetan monks stage their biggest demonstrations in nearly two decades against Chinese rule. China's state-run news agency says hundreds of protesters joined the Buddhist monks in the capital, Lhasa. Several shops were burned.

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