Policemen recall tales of horror in Lhasa

After two weeks of lying in a hospital bed, 19-year-old police officer Liu Dingwei still feels a sharp pain whenever he turns over.

"Doctors told me the wound was about the size of my fist," Liu said.

The man from the Chongqing municipality had a chunk of flesh gouged out of his left buttock when he and other armed police were trying to rescue people attacked by rioters near the Ramogia Monastery in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region.