Tibetans greet China's leaders with protest

BEIJING (AP) — Hundreds of Tibetans demonstrated in a western China town Friday, calling for freedom from Chinese rule in the latest act of protest apparently timed to send a signal to the Communist Party elite as it gathers in Beijing to induct a new leadership.

The protesters, mostly high school students, marched through the town of Rongwo, shouting for independence and for the return from exile of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, according to residents, people visiting the town and Tibetan exiles.