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.
[8] The film stock, which was old and worn out, caught fire and the flames spread to the wooden roof of the cinema hall.
A wooden beam fell onto and killed a man named Mohammed Said Agha Daqqouri, who saved 12 children from the fire before his death.
[12] According to the head of Amuda, Muhammad Omar Sheikhmous, there was "not a house left in Amouda without a child martyred from it" as a result of the fire.