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(en-US) « Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe Apologises in Parliament for Destruction of the Jaffna Public Library in 1981 when the UNP was in Power. », dbsjeyaraj.com, (lire en ligne, consulté le )
(en) Rebecca Knuth, Burning books and leveling libraries : Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction, Westport, Praeger, (ISBN978-0-275-99007-7, OCLC63703782), I - Grappling for Voice and Power, « Ethnic Biblioclasm, 1980-2005 », p. 80-87
(en) Raj Kumar Singh, Contemporary India with controversial neighbours, New Delhi, Gyan Publishing House, (ISBN978-81-212-1129-1, OCLC746598548, lire en ligne), « India, Sri Lanka and The LTTE », p. 237
(en) Eva Gerharz, The politics of reconstruction and development in Sri Lanka : Transnational commitments to social change, Londres, Routledge, coll. « Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series », (ISBN978-0-415-58229-2, OCLC1015531132), chap. 3 (« Jaffna – A Tamil Homeland »), p. 40-41
(en) Rachel Seoighe, War, denial and nation-building in Sri Lanka : After the end, Palgrave Macmillan, coll. « Palgrave studies in compromise after conflict », (ISBN978-3-319-56323-7, OCLC975368399), chap. 5 (« Tamil Separatism and Commemorative Practices »), p. 202-203
(en) Sasanka Perera, Warzone tourism in Sri Lanka : Tales from darker places in paradise, New Delhi, SAGE, (ISBN978-93-5150-921-9 et 978-93-5150-922-6, OCLC945121349), « 'The Jaffna Photo Album': Sinhala Warzone Tourism in the Time of a Ceasefire Travels », p. 44-50