In Tibet, the Chinese government is claiming more than one hundred people have surrendered in the protests against Chinese rule. Tibetans faced a deadline of midnight Monday to turn themselves in. The protests erupted last week when Buddhist monks took to the streets of Lhasa to mark the anniversary of the 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. Human rights groups say dozens of people have been killed and hundreds arrested in the Chinese crackdown. On Tuesday, the Dalai Lama said he would he step down as Tibet’s political leader if the violence continues.

The Dalai Lama: “As early as 1987, again in this very room, the British journalist Jonathan Mirsky — I interviewed here. And he asked me, 'If these things become out of control, violence, tell what you do.' Then I categorically regret. Immediately I told, if things become out of control, then my only option is completely resign, completely resign.”

The protests have reportedly spread to ethnic Tibetan communities outside of Tibet.