BBC
Saturday, June 21, 2008
The Olympic torch has been carried through the Tibetan provincial capital of Lhasa amid heavy security.
The 11km (seven mile) parade passed off smoothly, with the flame carried past apparently hand-picked spectators.
The BBC's James Reynolds says there is a staggering security presence in the city, three months after violent protests broke out.
Ethnic Tibetans clashed with security forces and Han Chinese in March in the biggest protests for two decades.
Foreign journalists have been barred from Lhasa since the unrest.
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