BEIJING - China set a "surrender deadline", listed deaths and showed the first extensive television footage of rioting in Lhasa on Saturday, signaling a crackdown after the worst unrest in Tibet for two decades.

Meanwhile, the main Tibetan exile group said Chinese police killed about 100 demonstrators and injured many more during the protests. The Tibetan government in exile, based in the north Indian town of Dharmsala, offered no details in their statement, and quoted only "unconfirmed sources."

Official news agency Xinhua earlier said that 10 "innocent civilians" died in fires that accompanied bitter clashes in the remote, mountain capital on Friday. It said no foreigners died but gave few other details, and the report could not be verified.


China has accused followers of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, of masterminding the rioting, which has scarred its image of national harmony in the build-up to the Beijing Olympics and already sparked talk of a boycott.


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