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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010, 8AM, Tibetan Student’s Protest reach Beijing! LA Times www.latimes.com New York Times www.nytimes.com Guardian www.guardian.co.uk www.dossiertibet.it Thousands of Tibetan students pressed ahead with protests for the second day running amid fears they will be forced to adopt a Chinese-language only school curriculum.About 8000 students took part in the demonstrations on Oct.20 in Tsolho.The protests erupted a day earlier in Rebkong in the same province over the language concern as fears gripped Tibetans that their culture, language, and national identity in regions ruled by China will be further eroded.Monks had joined the march on the first day of the demonstrations as participants carried banners, written in both Tibetan and Chinese, reading “Equality Among Nationalities” and “Expand the Use of the Tibetan Language,” sources said. The protests started Wednesday with about 2000 students demonstrating in a teachers’ college and two medical schools. More students joined in as the day progressed. “This morning around 8 in the morning, about 2000 students of Tsolho Teachers College, and two local medical schools assembled at the school ground. They observed silence and protested against the Chinese language policy in the area,” a Tibetan wrote on an RFA blog. “Later they filed in lines and marched towards the town center. They raised slogans demanding restoration of language ownership,” according to the blogger. About 4000 students of the Tsolho …