Sri Lanka’s destroyed Tamil library raised from ashes

Charles Davis noticed This One from an AP Story that says in a bid to win back the confidence of Sri Lanka’s ethnic Tamil minority, the government has renovated the public library in war-torn city of Jaffna, nearly 22 years after it was burned down by anti-Tamil mobs. The library lost its entire collection of 97,000 books and about 150 centuries-old Tamil scripts on herbal medicine when the original two-story building was destroyed in June 1981.

The government began renovation work on the library in 1999 with a campaign dubbed “a book and a brick” to win public support in collecting books and building materials.

February 10, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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