I may be naïve and gullible, but I do not believe the weeping Han civilians who were interviewed on Chinese TV news were actors making up stories about how their daughters and sisters were burned to death in stores which were impossible to escape from which were set on fire by Tibetan mobs from which they were hiding. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
Of course, one cannot buy the Chinese version wholesale. But one should not buy the foreign version wholesale either. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.