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31st May 1981: Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka burnt down during a violent attack

  • 31st May 2019
  • Tagged as: biblioclasm, Books, Civil War, Culture, Fire, History, Library, Sri Lanka, Tamil, Tamil Tigers
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The Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka was burnt down during a violent rampage by an organised mob of ethnic Sinhalese.

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