Burning of Jaffna library, one of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the century

Cuándo

31 may 1981

Tipo

Evento

Coordenadas

9.66° N, 80.01° E

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Burning of Jaffna library, one of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the century.

Situado en: coordinates of the event it links, Burning of the Jaffna Public Library.

1981 arson during the anti-Tamil pogrom

The Jaffna Public Library was burned by an organized mob of Sinhalese police and army on the night of 31 May 1981, on the orders of members of the ruling UNP party. The library's burning was one of the most violent examples of ethnically motivated 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.

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