Episode like Lhasa riot would have occurred sooner or later: veteran Tibetan official

BEIJING, March 19 (Xinhua) -- A riot would have occurred in China's Tibet Autonomous Region sooner or later, if not in Lhasa, since repeated episodes of violence happened from the 1959 failed rebellion to secede Tibet from the motherland, said a veteran Tibetan official here on Wednesday.

Ragdi, former vice-chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, made the remark at a meeting of the Counseling Committee on Development of the Tibet Autonomous Region.