Tibet video is a lie, says China...

China says video footage that purportedly shows Chinese security personnel violently beating Tibetans last year is "a lie". 

The video apparently shows protesters being beaten with sticks, and kicked and choked by China's security forces. 

The Tibetan government-in-exile says the footage shows China's "brutality". 

But a Chinese government official said many of the images and voices in the video had been pieced together from different sources. 

The video-sharing site YouTube has recently been blocked in China, which could be because the site had been carrying the contentious video. More...

Watch the video here...

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