The reasons why some Western media produced distorted reportsabout the March dots in Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region,have come in for much debate in China. Turning a blind eye to the brutality of the mob, who killed 18 civilians and one police officer, in-cluding an eight-month-old baby boy who was burned to death with his parents in Dagze County on March 16, rioters have been described by some newspapers, broadcasts and websites in the West as "peaceful pro-testers."