BEIJING: A day after Chinese officials reportedly agreed with envoys of the exiled Tibetan Buddhist to keep the door open on dialogue, China's state press accused the Dalai Lama on Monday of "monstrous crimes," .

The Chinese officials and the envoys met in southern China's Shenzhen city on Sunday following international pressure on Beijing to reopen negotiations with the Dalai Lama amid seven weeks of deadly unrest in Tibet.

The talks broke up with an agreement to meet again although no date was set, according to China's official news agency.

The "Dalai Clique" is trying to "confuse public opinion and incite ethnic hatred," the article said. The Dalai Lama's attempt to realise a "greater Tibetan region, is part of his attempt to split the motherland," it said.

"The Dalai Clique refuses to recognise that the Tibetan people are the masters of their own homeland, enjoy ample democratic rights and wide-ranging economic and cultural rights," it said.

In a separate article, the paper also denounced efforts by Western nations to use the "Tibet issue" to interfere in China's internal affairs and maintained that such efforts were "doomed to failure."

Meanwhile, the English-language China Daily called the Tibetan Youth Congress, run by exiled Tibetans, a "terrorist organisation" bent on separating Tibet from China.

The Tibetan government-in-exile says 203 Tibetans have been killed and about 1,000 hurt in the Chinese crackdown on the latest unrest. China says Tibetan "rioters" and "insurgents" have killed 21 people.