Tibetans in western China kept up the pressure on Beijing over the weekend, staging protests calling on Chinese leaders to open a dialogue with their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, as clashes broke out with security forces and detentions

As communication becomes more difficult with people living inside Tibet, cell phone conversations with family and friends overseas and second-hand accounts continue to describe events. For security reasons, we do not identify some of our sources by name in order