Event
Burning of Jaffna library, one of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the century
31 May 1981 · 9.66° N, 80.01° E
What the records say
- When
- 31 May 1981
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 9.66° N, 80.01° E
- Description
- Burning of Jaffna library, one of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the century.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Burning of the Jaffna Public Library.
2 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “волнения в Джафне, Шри-Ланка”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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