Pro-Tibet vigil held in Beijing (Reuters)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Mon, 03/17/2008 - 3:18pm

Police stand guard along a street during a riot in Lhasa, Tibet, in this frame grab from China's state television CCTV March 14, 2008.<br /><br />(CCTV via REUTERS TV/Reuters)Reuters - Ethnic Tibetan students staged a candle-lit vigil in Beijing on Monday, saying it was to pray for the dead, after authorities warned anti-Chinese rioters in the Tibetan capital to surrender.




 

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