TLTE Citation Record
Tier AThe Burning of the Jaffna Public Library
BBC World Service · BBC, broadcast c. 2015 (online archive)
tlte-cite:jaffna-1981-service-2015Editorial gloss
BBC World Service *Witness History* oral-history programme featuring testimony from survivors and eyewitnesses of the 1 June 1981 burning. As a BBC institutional production — with verified eyewitness interviews — this constitutes a Tier-A journalism source. The programme describes the burning as "one of the early triggers for the Sri Lankan civil war" and includes first-person accounts unavailable in print form.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s5g33
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Dossier tags
- case suppression
- jaffna library 1981
- cultural destruction
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