Con Dao is an archipelago with 16 large and small islands stretching over 76 km2, is a small lowland archipelago, with many attractive tourist attractions to enjoy annual holiday like Con Dao National Park, home Con Dao prison, Temple of Phi Yen, ... In particular, the national historical monument - Con Dao monastery, one of the 23 national monuments lined up special. Here the war against the French, against the United States is a dark place, was dubbed the "hell on earth," where the action shows the cruelty of earthquakes of French colonialism and American imperialism. , Which destroys the body and soul of patriotic prisoners.
By a decision established on 1/2/1862, Con Dao was transformed into the hell of political prisoners and patriots of Vietnam who were listed by the French as danger to French colonialism.
The Con Dao prison was built into several detention facilities, in which the tiger barn was the place where the most brutal forms of torture took place, leaving many to shudder as they recollected.
Tiger tiger is the solitary confinement of the French colonialists, the American Empire used to detain the high political prisoners. The tiger cage was originally built in France in 1940 with a total of 120 cells divided into two rows of detention facilities facing each other. Designing these chambers as animal cages, four-sided deep tunnels are concrete walls, the roof of the cell is solid and durable, connecting between the iron rungs is the passage for the guards. The iron wave was both the outlet, the only vent and through the barricades, the prisoners often sprinkled lime powder, poured dirty water into the prisoners. The inmates were slammed, unavoidable, lime powder, dirty water soaked in torture healing wounds did not heal, painful feeling like thousands of ants are tearing the body, die not dead. In solitary confinement rooms, there were only concrete floors without strips, dirty toilets, sanitary conditions, insecure sleep, Severe damage, the person who does not die here also becomes skeletal, skinny heartache.
By the time of American imperialism, the United States continued to use the bell ring, even expanding its scale, with 384 rooms divided into 4 zones, each with two rows, each consisting of 48 rooms. Each room has only space in 5m2, narrow, low humidity all year round. They use this prison block to deter the revolutionary soldiers for the purpose of information retrieval, but every torture, every measure they apply, has no effect, can not be moved. Their steadfast steadfastness.
The cowshed is a solitary confinement facility for female prisoners. At first the area was built by the French in 1876 to raise cows, goats, horses, pigs ... to provide food for the guards. By 1930, the French colonialists used this place as a prison for female prisoners. Not stopping there, they also used stools to stew the stingy people for several hours, this is one of the torture methods of their mental, cruel body. At present visitors to Con Dao prison can not see all the forms of torture prisoners of that time in France, the United States, but through the skinned prisoners of shackles, legs in the cage as narrow cage Confined animals, the same darkness, dampness in solitary confinement, visitors feel some part of the pain that political prisoners must undergo, more deeply than their will, patriotism, more Admire to his father's generation before.