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Tibetan activist with his face painted in the colours of the Tibetan flag shouts slogans during a mock-funeral urging China to tell the truth in Dharamsala on March 19, 2008. The Dalai Lama said March 18, that he would resign as leader of Tibet's exiles if unrest in his Himalayan homeland worsened, as aides said a Chinese crackdown had claimed 19 more lives.The Buddhist leader, speaking in the northern Indian town where his exiled government is based, stressed he was opposed to the violence that erupted in Tibet last week, which saw Chinese shops and banks torched and smashed. The Nobel Peace laureate, 72, said Tibetans and Chinese needed to live "side by side," urged his countrymen not to resort to violence and reiterated he was not trying to wrest the remote region from Beijing's control AFP PHOTO/ Manan VATSYAYANA (Photo credit should read MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images)