Jaffna Public Library

In Front of our vision, A Palace and lot of Burned Evidence were noticed.

And evidence of gun shots also recorded there.

The place owned by a Force for its “Base of Movement”.

Those Fighters belongs to Tamil Group.

First, we have to destroy Culture of Tamils to Destroy their history

The 1983 Anti-Tamil programs in Sri Lanka, commonly referred to as Black July.

After the incidents of 1983, it made Tamils to use weapons is untrue.

Before 1983 itself our Tamil Groups faced lot of wounds, agony in Sri Lanka

Books Are the Most Powerful Weapons in The World, A single book holding those history means,

Burning a lakh of books in a stretch in a place where it holds lot of histories our Tamils & it should hold lot of culture behind that, it will hurt more. That place was nothing but “Jaffna Public Library”.

Destroying of Jaffna Public Library – Part I, in which a Generation and beyond that will going to be known in this Post.

Normally a Group of Ethnic Fighters having their office @ some particular place or office.

But Our Tamil Groups having their Military Base in Jaffna Palace, In Particular the Library Inside the Palace.

Because we are not normal like other groups existing in this world.

We have our own Historical Identity.

Main Dream of Sinhalese is to destroy our Tamil history.

They found right time to execute this.

It was May 31, 1981 when early signs of the looming civil war broke out on the Jaffna peninsula of northern Sri Lanka, Meeting of Political Strength conducted by The Tamil United Liberation Front near Nachimar Kovil Place is going on. Most of the public watching this.

An organized Sinhala mob carried out an arson attack. This is the First revolt made to demolish the History of Tamils in Future is not known to the world.

Lot of commercial buildings, Vehicles, Public Transports set to Fire.

Whoever question against this, set to assault very seriously.

fire and violence spread to many homes and shops across Jaffna.

This riot extends after May 31 also. Using the situation many unidentified groups entered the Jaffna Public Library and assaulted the Security Persons for Library.

Petrol & Diesel and lot of fuels poured inside the library.

The voice of lakhs of books to save them were not heard by the arrogant group.

Some peoples nearby try to rush to the scene to safeguard the library.

Before they arrived, the Jaffna Public Library lost totally because of Fire.

Every nook & corner of the library filled with only the ashes of the Historical Books & its remaining.

On the night of June 1, according to many eyewitnesses, police and government-sponsored paramilitias set fire to the Jaffna public library and destroyed it completely.

Over 97,000 volumes of books along with numerous culturally important and irreplaceable manuscripts were destroyed

Among the destroyed items were scrolls of historical value and the works and manuscripts of philosopher, artist and Palm Manuscripts among them.

Even a single part or a page can’t able to save from the Fire set by the Anti Groups.

U.V. Swaminathan Iyer, was a Tamil scholar and researcher who was instrumental in bringing many long-forgotten works of Classical Tamil Literature to light, He collected various details from this Jaffna Public Library Only.

In 15th when Mughals made attack in Tamil Nadu Regions, Our Tamil peoples fear that lot of Palm Manuscripts & books and historical evident are feared to be destroyed.

So, they transferred this to Jaffna using boats is a history.

Those wealth’s are kept safe in Jaffna Public Library for the Future Youngsters totally destroyed in the riot.

Some books we studied today got wrong information intentionally to divert the History of Tamils & their Cultures.

But the Boos fired inside the Jaffna Public Library is not like that, its Valuables which can kept for Generation to regain the lost knowledge of Tamils to the World.

The History of Jaffna Public Library will be as follows.

The origins of the Jaffna library can be traced to the generosity and foresightedness of a book lover named K.M. Chellappah who in 1933 began sharing the collection of his books among friends and fellow men with the view to enhancing their knowledge.

He worked for District Court Jaffna.

The embryonic Jaffna library was opened on August 1, 1934 with a collection of just 844 books and about 30 magazines and newspapers in a small room at Hospital Road & rent of Rs.25 for the building.

From here the library was moved to a rented house on Main Street near the Town Hall in 1936.

In 1952 a meeting convened by the first Mayor of Jaffna, Sam Sabapathy, decided to construct the library very huge.

The library committee invited the leading specialist in Library Science, Prof. S.R. Ranganathan from Delhi to develop the library to international standards, and for that well known authority of Dravidian architecture and the then architect to the Madras Government, V.M. Narasimhan to design it.

The library was opened on October 11, 1959 in Grand Manor.

Later a Children’s section was opened on 3 November 1967.

An auditorium was opened in the first floor in 1971.

So got his importance after year 1971 only.

Sinhalese noted, Because of this Library only, many got their knowledge & about the histories

And researches are also made using these various kinds of books.

They planned to destroy the library many times but not succeeded.

On the night of 31 May 1981, while Jaffna slept, all these precious collections were consigned to the flames when the Jaffna Public library was set on fire by a few misguided individuals who could not realize that what they were destroying was a part of their own heritage as well.

Among the rare books are, Books written in Tamil by Catholic clergy in 1585

“History of Ceylon” written by Robert Knox in 1660s

Mudaliar Nayakars’ historical book of Jaffna “Ancient Jaffna”

Muthuthambipillai’s first literary collection in Tamil titled ‘Abidhana Kosham’

followed by ‘Abidhana Sinnthamani’ compiled by Singara Mudaliar

along with all the traces of Siddha Medicines written on palm leaves.

Many died due to Heart Attack when they heard this news is to be registered here.

according to many eyewitnesses, police and government-sponsored paramilitias set fire to the Jaffna public library and destroyed it completely.

We are going to lot more in the Second Part of this Post even more detailed.

We have to know the Exact Truth & History behind this and who is our real enemy.

So, Education & Knowledge not finished inside schools & colleges only, it will continue searching of Real Histories which convey truth to World. Who we are?

Who is the mastermind behind this are going to elaborated in second part.