“The fire on the Jaffna library is still burning in the bodies of Tamils and Tamil lands,” said Vediyappan, owner of Discovery Book Palace, a popular publishing house in Tamil Nadu.
In an exclusive interview with “The Quest” website, the Vediyappan said that 40 years have passed since the burning of Jaffna library by Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism.
“If you want to destroy a race, if you destroy the intellectual property of that race, that race will automatically disappear. They will say that if the language of that race is destroyed then that race will be extinct.
The burning of the Jaffna Library is the beginning of the genocide of the whole world or the most important work of the genocide.
The Sinhala library, which has so far dominated Sri Lanka, has destroyed the Jaffna library, which has been the heart, treasury and symbol of the intellectual property and language of the Tamils.
The Sinhala rulers are destroying the Jaffna library, which has been the heart, treasury and symbol of the intellectual property and language of the Tamils.
It has been forty years since the Jaffna library was set on fire. Thus the fire set on the library of an ethnic group, whether it is the Eelam struggle or genocide, is still burning in the bodies of Tamils, in the lands of Tamils.
It has been forty years since the Jaffna library was set on fire. Thus the fire set on the library of an ethnic group, whether it is the Eelam struggle or genocide, is still burning in the bodies of Tamils, in the lands of Tamils.
Emancipation for the Eelamites will occur in the future and will have its benefits. Burning a library is no ordinary matter. If a library is burned, the victim and the perpetrator will have different positions.
The burners would certainly have done it in a dominant mood. It is difficult for victims to recover from that tragedy.
No matter how many years pass, the debts caused by the burning of this library will definitely be repaired. I hope the Eelam Tamils will be liberated.”
