The murder of three policemen by Tamils prompted Sinhalese paramilitaries to conduct this kindof action in Jaffna during the Sri Lankan civil war.
The murder of three policemen by Tamils prompted Sinhalese paramilitaries to conduct this kindof action in Jaffna during the Sri Lankan civil war. Students committing this act at the 1817Wartburg Festival may have inspired Karl Sand to kill August von Kotzebue. Along with massburials, this kind of campaign ended the Hundred Schools of Thought era under (*) Qin Shihuangdi.Nasir al-Din Tusi rescued some of the targets of this action from the House of Wisdom in 1258 duringHulagu Khan's siege of Baghdad, which caused the rivers to run black as a result of this action. In 1933,Joseph Goebbels spurred German youth to commit this action en masse in the Opernplatz in Berlin. For 10points, identify this repressive action often accomplished by flinging offending volumes on bonfires.
The murder of three policemen by Tamils prompted Sinhalese paramilitaries to conduct this kindof action in Jaffna during the Sri Lankan civil war.
Destroying Books [or libricide; or biblioclasm; accept any reasonable equivalents conveying books being destroyed or siezed; accept burning of books at any point, which is essentially used a synonym for the general action rather than necessarily denoting an incendiary modus operandi]