The Burning of the Jaffna Public Library

BBC World Service · BBC, broadcast c. 2015 (online archive)

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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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