Crimes of War, Crimes of Peace: Destruction of Libraries during and after the Balkan Wars of the 1990s

András J. Riedlmayer · *Library Trends* (IDEALS, University of Illinois), 2007

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Riedlmayer's 2007 synthesis extends his Sarajevo documentation to the full Balkan pattern, articulating a framework for "crimes against cultural heritage" as crimes against a people's collective identity. When read alongside Knuth's *Libricide*, this establishes the comparative academic scaffold within which Jaffna 1981 is increasingly placed.

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