Editing Historical negationism (section)

===Book burning===
{{Main|Book burning}}
Repositories of literature have been targeted throughout history (e.g., the [[House of Wisdom#Destruction by the Mongols|Grand Library of Baghdad]], the burning of liturgical and historical books of the [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church|St. Thomas Christians]] by the [[Patriarch of the East Indies|archbishop of Goa]] [[Aleixo de Menezes]]<ref>Cf. Gouvea, Jornada (Coimbra, 1606);Geddes,"History of the Malabar Church", London, 1694</ref>) including recently, such as the 1981 [[Burning of Jaffna library]] and the destruction of Iraqi libraries by [[Islamic State|ISIS]] during the [[fall of Mosul]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/26/isis-destroys-thousands-books-libraries|last=Fadhil|first=Muna|title=Isis destroys thousands of books and manuscripts in Mosul libraries |date=26 February 2015|access-date=17 July 2015|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Similarly, British officials destroyed documents in [[Operation Legacy]] to avoid records on colonial rule falling into the hands of countries declaring independence from Britain and any scrutiny of the British state.

====Chinese book burning====
{{Main|Burning of books and burying of scholars}}
The ''[[Burning of books and burying of scholars]]'' ({{zh|t=焚書坑儒|s=焚书坑儒|p=fénshū kēngrú|l=burning of books and burying (alive) of (Confucian) scholars|first=t}}), or "Fires of Qin", refers to the burning of writings and slaughter of scholars during the [[Qin dynasty]] of [[ancient China]], between the period of 213 and 210 BC. "Books" at this point refers to writings on [[Bamboo and wooden slips|bamboo strips]], which were then bound together. The exact extent of the damage is hard to assess; technological books were to be spared<ref>Shiji Chapter 6. "The Basic Annals of the First Emperor of Qin" thirty-fourth year: "所不去者，醫藥卜筮種樹之書。"</ref> and even the "objectionable" books, poetry and philosophy in particular, were preserved in imperial archives and allowed to be kept by the official scholar.