The 62nd anniversary of the massacre of the Amouda cinema fire
ARK News: On Saturday, November 13, 2022, marked the 62nd anniversary of the massacre of Amouda Cinema in Syrian Kurdistan, where hundreds of children were martyred due to contrived fire.
Massacre details:
The city of Amouda in Syrian Kurdistan, 62 years ago, witnessed an event that will not erase the memory of the city, as witnessed on 13 November 1960, the martyrdom of about 283 children whose ages do not exceed 12 years.
The incident was known as the Amouda cinema fire, or the massacre of the cinema, the children were invited by the director of Amouda town at the time to attend the film "The Ghost of the Midnight", which is not intended for children, in a cinema that cannot accommodate more than 200 people, while the number of children was up to 500 children.
The goal of this big school trip was to support the Algerian revolution through fundraising, but things did not go well. During the third screening at the “Shahrazad” cinema that day, a spark erupted from the old projection engine, extending the fire to the wooden walls, furniture, and bodies of terrified children.
Children flocked to the main gate, causing it to be closed as a result of their crowding, while some of them decided to jump from a window leading out of the hall, but what they did not know is that the window overlooking an open well underneath, causing the death of a number of them in it.
The people of the city heard the screaming of the children and rushed to their rescue, and during the intervention of the parents, a wooden beam fell from the ceiling and killed a young man who saved about 12 children named Mohammed Said Agha Daqqouri.
One of the surviving children, Hassan Deraihi, became one of the most famous Syrian lawyers and recorded part of his testimony on the massacre, which had been registered against an unknown since the rule of the “United Arab Republic” until the Al-Assad came to power, the lawyer came under pressure from the Intelligence Services following the publication of his book “Amouda is Burning ” in 2005.
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