Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

Mass murder of the Kurdish children in Western
Kurdistan
One of the horrific racist crimes committed by the
Syrian Intelligence against the Kurdish people in Syria
during the Unification period was the massacre in a cinema
house in the town of Amuda) where 380 innocent Kurdish
children became victims and burned to death while
watching a movie about the Algerian revolution on
13/11/1960. On 28 September 1961 the Syrian-Egyptian
Unification fell by a military coup and the families of
the victims of Amuda massacre took legal actions in
Syrian courts against the criminals who committed that
horrible crime. Those involved were interrogated and it
occurred that they were associated with the Syrian
Intelligence Services and as a reply to the court they said
that they were only carrying out orders of the state as
nothing but employees. So the state judge declared their
innocence and thus provided further proof that the Syrian
government will go on carrying out its racist policy of
discrimination, extermination of the Kurdish people or
assimilating them into Arabs.
The Arab Belt and the Emergency Census in
Western Kurdistan
In addition to dismissing the Kurdish military officers
and not admitting Kurdish students into teaching and
military colleges, the Syrian government that followed
the Syrian-Egyptian Unification government in 1961 was
even more racist and against the Kurdish existence. It
issued the jurisdiction act no (93) dated 23/8/1962
according to which an emergency census was held in
Al-Jazeera province Hasaka in the Syrian part of Kurdistan
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