HDP: Amuda cinema massacre planned based on dirty calculations

The Vice-chairmanship of the Peoples’ Democratic Party and the official of the language, culture, art and education authority in the party, Salem Kaplan, issued a statement on the occasion of the anniversary of the Amuda cinema massacre, reported by Furat news agency, which said:

“Despite passing the years, but the Amuda cinema massacre still fresh in our minds, caused the panic and suffering, we commemorate it on 61^st anniversary the children those who lost their lives as a result of that massacre with appreciation and respect. We also pray for them with mercy, we will not forget that massacre, a fire Amuda cinema has not been extinguished for 61 years, and it is still burning in our hearts.

The statement added: "It has been 61 years since the cinema of Amuda massacre. On November 13^th, 1960, a planned massacre took place in Amuda, where the cinema of Shahrzad was burned. This massacre became a tragedy in the minds of the Kurdish people, as a black day."

The statement noted, " Amuda cinema massacre was planned on the basis of dirty calculations by Ba'athist regime officials and for children to see a movie."A Crime in the Middle of the Night "forced them to go to the movie theater, a movie theater that had a capacity of 200 people, where hall officials gathered 500 children, and after a fire in the hall, regime soldiers closed the movie theater door and did not let the children out on the one hand and did not allow the people to put out the fire on the other. After that, 283 children between the ages of eight and fourteen were burned.

The statement stressed that "the massacre demonstrates the dirty mindset and blackface of the regime. It has been 61 years since that massacre, without revealing the cause and the perpetrators of this black crime, and conducting a serious investigation into it, that no one has paid for it, and that the Syrian regime has not allowed the people of Amuda to commemorate this tragedy for years."

The statement pointed out that "the Amuda cinema massacre was a sign of the regime's hostility to the children of the Kurds and the Kurdish people in Rojava, the mentality that seized all the basic rights of the Kurdish children, and left the Kurdish children without an identity and expelled them from their areas and homes, as it revealed its hostility in that massacre. and added a new black page to the pages of human history.

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ANHA