Amouda cinema explained

Amouda Cinema was a movie theater in Amuda town in Al-Hasakah Governorate of Syria. This cinema burned down in a fire in November 1960 and more than 200 children died inside it,[1] it was believed to have been inspired by ethnic hatred towards Kurds.[2]

Amouda is Burning

Amouda is Burning is a documentary book about the Amouda Cinema fire by the Kurdish-Syrian writer and lawyer Hasan Draei.[3] [4] [5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Violent Crime Defense Attorney San Diego CA | Law Firm Near Me. https://web.archive.org/web/20140517153236/http://www.yekiti-party.org/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71:on-the-occasion-of-the-fiftieth-anniversary-of-the-massacre-of-amouda-cinema&catid=36:news&Itemid=27. 2014-05-17.
  2. Book: David, McDowall. A Modern History Of The Kurds. I.B. Tauris. 1996. 9781850434160. 472.
  3. Web site: Haitham Hussein: The continuing story of a Syrian Kurd novelist. December 2012.
  4. Web site: فرهاد دريعي - عامودا لن تحترق.
  5. Web site: وفاة حسن دريعي كاتب "عامودا تحترق" قُبيل أيام من ذكراها السنوي . 2014-05-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140531013841/http://www.hawarnews.com/index.php/2013-02-14-17-53-15/7583--q-q- . 2014-05-31 .