Sikh Reference Library, What Actually Happened In '84

[InderjitS]

[lsingh]

Did the Indians get the idea to burn the Sikh Reference library from the burning of the Tamil library in Sri Lanka a few years earlier?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11668352

[S4NGH]

Did the Indians get the idea to burn the Sikh Reference library from the burning of the Tamil library in Sri Lanka a few years earlier?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11668352

Or the nazi book burning in bebelplatz and austria?

[eduardo]

It's true, Look at Cambodia and China in the early days of the revolution.

Book burning seems to be a common tactic if you want to ethnically cleanse a culture and replace it with something else.

There must be loads of examples in history.

With the internet this tactic is no longer possible thankfully.