Last week, the Chinese authorities invited foreign journalists to Lhasa to interview monks.  But during a visit to one of Lhasa's temples, a group of 30 monks stormed the news briefing, accusing the Chinese authorities of lying about recent unrest.  Here's the latest.

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A group of monks had been assigned to talk to the foreign journalists during the staged tour of Lhasa last week. But a group of monks burst out, risking their safety to tell a very different story.

They said the so-called monks approved to talk to press were in fact Chinese officials, and they said the Dalai Lama had nothing to do with the Tibetan violence.

Hong Kong's TVB aired television footage of the bold outburst in front of the first foreign journalists allowed into Tibet since the violence, showing the monks in crimson robes, some weeping, crowded around cameras.

[Tibetan Monks]

"Everything is false."

[Tibetan Monks]

"They just don't believe us. They think we will come out and cause havoc -- smash, destroy, rob, burn. We didn't do anything like that -- they're falsely accusing us."