Here's an American tourist's chronological eyewitness account of what happened: Day 1 - no problem http://kadfly.blogspot.com/2008/03/re****ting-from-front-lines-of.html Day 2 - "jovial" silent protest turned into burning shops and beating up unarmed police http://kadfly.blogspot.com/2008/03/lhasa-burning.html Day 3 - Police roll in, still unarmed and watched the city burn. They have riot ****elds and batons but no guns. Tibetean mob turns violence toward fellow citizens, Han and Hui minority population in Tibet were targeted and attacked http://kadfly.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-from-lhasa.html