(16 Mar 2008)
1. Wide of Tibetan residents in Belgium demonstrating in front of the Chinese Mission to the European Union in Brussels, pan right to police with dogs
2. Various of police
3. Mid of protesters chanting slogans
4. Wide of protesters chanting slogans and waving Tibetan flag
5. Mid of protester chanting (English) "We want justice"
6. Wide of police watching protesters
7. Back shot of protesters
8. Close-up of protester's waistcoat with writing on it reading (English) "Tibet is for Tibetans, not for Red Chinese"
9. Police watching protesters
10. Wide of plate outside Chinese mission's gate
11. Police outside Chinese mission
12. Back shot of protesters with police watching
13. Police with dogs watching protesters
14. Mid of dogs
15. Wide of protesters outside mission's building
STORYLINE:
About 250 Tibetan residents in Belgium gathered on Sunday in front of the Chinese Mission to the European Union in Brussels to demonstrate against the Chinese government's crackdown on protests in Tibet that drew negative publicity for China ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
Supporters of the exiled Tibetan government waved Tibetan flags and chanted slogans.
"We want justice," demonstrators shouted as police with dogs watched the peaceful protest.
Five days of protests in the Tibetan region's capital Lhasa escalated into violence on Friday, with Buddhist monks and others torching police cars and shops in the fiercest challenge to Beijing's rule over the region in nearly two decades.
Security forces patrolled Lhasa on Sunday enforcing a clampdown following the protests.
Earlier on Sunday, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama told reporters in Dharmsala, the north Indian hill town where Tibet's self-declared government-in-exile is based, that Tibet was facing a "cultural genocide".
It was not immediately clear if he was referring to China's overall policies in Tibet when he spoke of a genocide, or the recent crackdown.
The Dalai Lama said an international body should investigate the crackdown.
Supporters of the Dalai Lama say 80 people have been killed during protests in Lhasa.
The official Xinhua News Agency has said at least 10 civilians were burned to death on Friday.
The figures could not be independently verified because China restricts foreign media access to Tibet.
The violence on Friday erupted just two weeks before China's Olympic celebrations kick off with the start of the torch relay, which will pass through Tibet.
The unrest in Tibet began last Monday on the anniversary of a 1959 uprising against Chinese rule of the region.
Tibet was effectively independent for decades before communist troops entered in 1950.
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