Burning books was one of the most popular scenes in the movies representing fascist time and Nazi crimes of the second world war. Imagine, we have only seen it in TV... but not all of us...
Lately, in the beggining of the XXIst century, a war took place in a small country called Kosovo and the same tactics were applied. Burning land politics, burning books, chasing people outside borders and destroying their identity (documents) and killing thousends of men and women...
The latest damage evaluation in the town of Skenderaj, Kosovo for burned books during the war in 1998/1999 is an estimation that 48.091 books were burned in public libraries throughout a region populated with only 70, 000 inhabitants. This means that from each inhabitant was burned more than 0.7 book that was available in public libraries.
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