The burning of the Jaffna Public Library (Tamil: யாழ் பொது நூலகம் எரிப்பு, Yāḻ potu nūlakam erippu; Sinhala: යාපනය මහජන පුස්තකාලය ගිනිබත් කිරීම, Yāpanaya...

Jaffna Public Library (Tamil: யாழ் பொது நூலகம்; Sinhala: යාපනය මහජන පුස්තකාලය) is located in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is one of Jaffna's most notable landmarks...

destruction of Aztec codices by Itzcoatl (1430s), the burning of Maya codices on the order of bishop Diego de Landa (1562), and the burning of Jaffna Public Library...

burning of Jaffna Library". Tamil Guardian. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2024. "37 years on - remembering the burning of the Jaffna Public Library"...

Jaffna (Tamil: யாழ்ப்பாணம், romanized: Yāḻppāṇam, IPA: [jaːɻpːaːɳɐm]; Sinhala: යාපනය, romanized: Yāpanaya, IPA: [jaːpənəjə]) is the capital city of the...

order of bishop Diego de Landa (1562), and the burning of Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka (1981). In other cases, such as the Nazi book burnings, copies...

destruction of the Library of Alexandria, the destruction of Library of Nalanda in India and the accidental burning of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar...

Jaffna International Airport (Tamil: யாழ்ப்பாணம் சர்வதேச விமான நிலையம், romanized: Yāḻppāṇam Carvatēca Vimāṉa Nilaiyam; Sinhala: යාපනය ජාත්‍යන්තර ගුවන්තොටුපළ...

Burning of Jaffna Public Library and Poobalasingam Book depot during the riots. "'Jaffna burns again' - snippets from the burning of Jaffna Library"...

link] Amnesty international Report on Sri Lanka, Jan 1981 "Burning of the Jaffna Library". Amnesty International's 1982 fact-finding mission to Sri Lanka...

The Jaffna hospital massacre occurred on October 21 and 22, 1987, during the Sri Lankan Civil War, when troops of the Indian Peace Keeping Force entered...

Gurunagar (Tamil: குருநகர், romanized: Kurunakar) is a coastal village in Jaffna city in northern Sri Lanka. Gurunagar is also known as Karaiyur (Tamil:...

– Burning of Jaffna Public Library: A mob of Sinhalese civilians riot and set fire to the Jaffna Public Library in an arson attack. It was one of the...

Retrieved May 22, 2024. "37 years on - remembering the burning of the Jaffna Public Library". Tamil Guardian. 31 May 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2024. Ananda...

literary events and publications of 1981. May 31 – The burning of Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka is begun by a mob of police and government-sponsored...

is a coastal suburb of the city Jaffna city in northern Sri Lanka. In 2007 the population of Navanthurai North was 1,922 and that of Navanthurai South was...

The Jaffna Public Library which contained over 97,000 books and manuscripts was one of the biggest libraries in Asia, and through the Burning of the Jaffna...

romanized: Ariyālai; Sinhala: අරියාලෙයි Ariyāleyi) is a suburb of the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The suburb is divided into eight village...

Notable book burnings – the public burning of books for ideological reasons – have taken place throughout history. About 600 BC, Jeremiah of Anathoth wrote...

romanized: Koḻumputtuṟai; Sinhala: කොලොම්තර Kolomtara) is a suburb of the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. Colombuthurai means "the port at the bending...

area. During the violence the Jaffna public library was burned, as well as the offices of a Tamil newspaper, and the home of a Tamil MP. The violence was...

raped by marauding mobs. Burning of the Jaffna Library (Jaffna, Northern Province) − The Jaffna Public Library is burnt by a mob of Sinhalese individuals...

erupted in the form of the 1956, 1958, 1977, 1981 and 1983 anti-Tamil pogroms, as well as the 1981 burning of the Jaffna Public Library. These were carried...

Sinhala: චුන්දිකුලි Cundikuli) is a suburb of the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. Chundikuli means "the pond of the cunti plant" in Tamil and is derived...

notably during the 1977 anti-Tamil pogrom and the 1981 burning of the Jaffna Public Library. Following the week-long July 1983 anti-Tamil pogrom carried...

Sannidhi Murugan Temple, Burning of Jaffna library, Burning of Jaffna library, Maruthanamadam Anjaneyar Temple). The Second schedule of filming was held in...

was the youngest of four children, born in Valvettithurai, on Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula's northern coast. Considered the heart of Tamil culture and...

state-sanctioned rapes as "a form of genocide of the Tamil people." The burning of the Jaffna Public library in 1981 by an organised Sinhalese mob has been described...

the burning of the Jaffna library. Yalpana Vaipava Malai is one of the rare books which contains facts about the Ariyachakravsrtis who ruled Jaffna, north...

Mallakam Sri Baskaran Cricket Ground, Jaffna also known as Mallakam Cricket Ground, (Sinhala: මල්ලකම් ශ්‍රී බාස්කරන් ක්‍රිකට් ක්‍රීඩාංගණය, Tamil: மல்லகம்...