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China rejects dialogue, vows to smash Tibetan protests

AFP, Beijing
China turned its back Saturday on appeals for dialogue with the Dalai Lama, vowing to smash anti-China forces in Tibet, where it said the death toll from recent unrest had risen to 19.
A day after Beijing launched a manhunt for monks and others it blamed for violence in Tibet, an editorial in the People's Daily, mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist party, said opposition to Chinese rule in the Himalayan region must be wiped out.
"China must resolutely crush the conspiracy of sabotage and smash 'Tibet independence forces'," the newspaper said in the editorial, rejecting calls from US, European and Asian leaders for talks.
The commentary accused the Dalai Lama of masterminding protests in Tibet in the hope of undermining the August 8-24 Beijing Olympics and gaining Tibet independence from Beijing.
It said that "1.3 billion Chinese people, including the Tibetan people, would allow no person or force to undermine the stability of the region."
The commentary effectively
rebuffed growing international calls for dialogue to end the crackdown on protests that began last week to mark the anniversary of a 1959 uprising against Beijing's rule.
Earlier Saturday, China said 18 "innocent" civilians and one police officer were killed in rioting in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, raising its official death toll from 13.
Tibet's government-in-exile in the Indian hill town of Dharamshala has put the toll from a week of unrest across the Himalayan region and neighbouring provinces at 99.
The government-in-exile also said talks with its spiritual leader the Dalai Lama were more crucial "than ever before" as Beijing vowed to crush anti-China forces in Tibet
The comments came after the People's Daily, mouthpiece of China's Communist party, said earlier in the day that opposition to Chinese rule in Tibet must be smashed and turned its back on world calls for talks with the Buddhist icon.
1 ' Talks are mord necessary titan ever before," Thubten Samphel, spokesman for the exiled administration, which has its headquarters in northern India, told AFP.
On Friday, leaders in Japan and Poland joined the United States and other countries in an international appeal for restraint and dialogue.
They were joined on Saturday by 30 prominent Chinese writers and intellectuals who signed a letter to their government urging talks with theTibetan spiritual leader.
They also called on China to open Tibet up to foreign media and to allow a team of independent UN investigators to carry out a full investigation of "the evidence, the course of the incident, the number of casualties, etc.".
The signatories, who included Liu Xiaobo, Teng Biao, Wang Qisheng and other noted rights activists, also said China should show evidence it says it possesses that proves the Dalai Lama was behind the uprising.
US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi has also demanded that China come clean on repression inTibet.
"The situation in Tibet is a chai-
greeted in Dharamshala by thousands of flag-waving Tibetan exiles as she arrived for talks Friday with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader.