Burning of Jaffna Public Library Event (1981-06-01)

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A Burning of Jaffna Public Library Event (1981-06-01) is a ethnic biblioclasm event in Sri Lanka.

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2023

  • (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Jaffna_Public_Library Retrieved:2023-12-28.
    • The burning of the Jaffna Public Library (, Yāḻ potu nūlakam erippu; Sinhala: යාපනය මහජන පුස්තකාලය ගිනිබත් කිරීම, Yāpanaya mahajana pustakālaya ginibat kirīma) took place on the night of June 1, 1981, when an organized mob of Sinhalese individuals went on a rampage, burning the library.[1] It was one of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the 20th century. At the time of its destruction, the library was one of the biggest in Asia, containing over 97,000 books and manuscripts. [2]
  1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named DATE
  2. ↑ Wilson, A.J. Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism: Its Origins and Development in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, p.125
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