Posted AT 3:47 AM EDT on 21/03/08
China admits shooting protesters in self-defence
BEIJING — China has admitted for the first time that its police have opened fire on Tibetan protesters, but it insisted yesterday that the gunfire was in self-defence.China's state-run news agency, Xinhua, said police shot and wounded four protesters in the Tibetan region of Aba in Sichuan province last Sunday. It did not acknowledge any deaths.
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