Original text - English - Challenge to Bejing ahead of olympics Violence...

Challenge to Bejing ahead of olympics
Violence erupted Friday in a busy market area of the Tibetan capital,Lhasa,as Buddhist monks and other ethnic Tibetsans clashed with Chinese security forces.Beijing is facing the most serious and prolonged demonstrations in the remote Himalayan region since the late 1980s,when it suppressed a rebellion there with lethal force that left scores and possibly hundreds of ethnic Tibetans dead.