(16 Mar 2008)
1. Wide of Tibetan protesters gathered in front of the Justice Palace in Brussels, waving Tibetan flags
2. Protesters singing Tibetan anthem
3. Tibetan protesters singing Tibetan anthem, one protester holding sign reading (English): "Stop Killing in Tibet"
4. Tibetan protesters singing Tibetan anthem, one protester holding sign showing Tibetans reportedly arrested during the March 10, 2008 demonstration in Lhasa
5. Two protesters holding Tibetan flags and observing silence
6. Protesters with their mouths covered, observing silence
7. Close-up of protester with his mouth covered by sticker reading (English): "Beijng 2008, Race for Tibet"
8. Protesters including a child in silence
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tenzin Wangmo Dunchu, representative of the exiled Tibetan government to the European Union:
"Until the negotiations will go on and the dialogue will go on between the envoys of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Chinese leadership they won't stop the protests. And they're asking also for a return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet."
10. Protesters waving Tibetan flags
11. Tibetan protester holding up signs reading (English): "Stop Killing in Tibet" and "Respect Human Rights in Tibet"
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tsewang Dolma, Tibetan Protester:
"We feel very sad. We feel so frustrated that we cannot do... even if we are Tibetan, we can not do anything for them. We just have to stand and watch them. So we feel so sad."
13. Tilt-up from sign reading (English): "Tibet: China's Shame" to protester with mouth covered and holding a Tibetan flag and a candle
14. Wide of protesters holding large banner against the Olympics in China
STORYLINE:
A few hundred Tibetans living in Belgium gathered on Sunday in front of the Justice Palace 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 held signs calling for the violence to stop in Tibet.
Tenzin Wangmo Dunchu, a representative of the exiled Tibetan government to the European Union, told AP Television that the protests will go unless there is dialogue and negotiations "between the envoys of his holiness the Dalai Lama and the Chinese leadership."
She added that the protesters in Tibet were also asking for "a return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet."
Tsewang Dolma, a Tibetan Protester expressed her sadness and frustration for being unable to do anything to help the demonstrators in Tibet.
"We just have to stand and watch them. So we feel so sad," she said.
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 were patrolling the Tibetan region's capital Lhasa on Sunday enforcing a clampdown following the protests.
Meanwhile, 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.
A spokesman for the Dalai Lama's government-in-exile, said on Sunday that multiple sources inside Tibet had counted at least 80 corpses since the violence broke out on Friday.
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