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BEIJING-China accused the Dalai Lama on Tuesday of orchestrating Tibetan riots to wreck Beijing's Olympic Games, but the exiled spiritual leader denied the charge and vowed to stand down if the violence spiraled out of control.The Tibetan government-in-exile said from the Dalai Lama's base in the Indian Himalayan foothills that it now believed 99 people had died in clashes between Chinese authorities and Tibetan over the past week, including 19 on Tuesday alone.Premier Wen Jiabao defended the security crackdown imposed on Lhasa, capital of the predominantly Buddhist mountain region, and on neighboring Chinese provinces where rioting by Tibetans erupted over the weekend."There is ample fact and plenty of evidence proving this incident was organized, premeditated, masterminded and incited by the Dalai clique," Wen told a news conference in Beijing."This has all the more revealed the consistent claims by the Dalai clique that they pursue not independence but peaceful dialogue are nothing but lies."A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman later went as far as saying that the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, should face trial.The Dalai Lama denied the charges laid against him and said he would quit as Tibetan leader if the violence got out of hand."If things become out of control then my only option is to completely resign," the Nobel peace laureate told a news conference in Dharamsala, northern India.To read more go to:
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