31st May 1981: Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka burnt down
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31st May 1981: Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka burnt down
The Jaffna Public Library was built in 1933 to serve the capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. By the 1980s it had become one of the largest libraries in Asia and the foremost repository of Tamil literature and culture. The attack on the library resulted in the burning of over 97,000 books and manuscripts of enormous cultural and ...
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