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 BEIJING (AP) - China's premier denounced the Dalai Lama's supporters as instigators of violent anti-Chinese riots in Tibet's capital, taking a hard stance Tuesday as a deadline for protesters to turn themselves in passed without any apparent surrenders.
Premier Wen Jiabao's remarks were the highest-level response to last week's rampage in Lhasa, which the government has said killed 16 people and injured dozens. The Dalai Lama's government-in-exile in India has said that 80 Tibetans were killed.
"There is ample fact — and we also have plenty of evidence — proving that this incident was organized, premeditated, masterminded and incited by the Dalai clique," Wen told reporters at a news conference held at the end of China's national legislative meeting. He did not give any details.
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