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Each camp would be staffed by South Vietnamese military police with U.S. military police prisoner of war advisers also assigned to each camp. The plan was approved in December 1965. Late in 1966 work was begun on the Can Tho camp in IV Corps. [1]: 67 In October 1971 the camp held 3,007 prisoners including 66 People's Army of Vietnam soldiers ...
Re-education camps (Vietnamese: Trại cải tạo) were prison camps operated by the communist Việt Cộng and Socialist Republic of Vietnam following the end of the Vietnam War. In these camps, the government imprisoned at least 200,000-300,000 former military officers, government workers and supporters of the former government of South ...
On 4 July 1968 the base was subjected to a heavy People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) rocket and mortar attack followed by probes on the base perimeter resulting in 5 U.S. and 16 PAVN killed. On 23 February 1969 the base was attacked by PAVN sappers.
In 1861, the French colonial government established a prison on the island to house prisoners who had committed especially severe crimes. After the turn of the century, the prison held an increasingly larger population of political prisoners. In 1954, it was turned over to the South Vietnamese government, who continued to use it for the same ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Vietnam for a variety of crimes. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative [ 1 ] gives Vietnam a score of 4.4 out of 10 on the right to freedom from the death penalty, based on responses from human rights experts in the country. [ 2 ]
Chí Hòa Prison (Vietnamese: Khám Chí Hòa or Nhà Tù Chí Hòa) is a functioning Vietnamese prison located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The prison is an octagonal building on a 7-hectare site [ 1 ] consisting of detention rooms, jail cells, prison walls, watchtowers, facilities and prisoner's farmlands.
U.S Army, Vietnam, Installation Stockade (USARVIS), more commonly known as Long Binh Jail, was established in the summer of 1966 by the U.S. Army as a temporary stockade designed to hold about four hundred prisoners, located on Long Binh Post approximately 20 kilometers northeast of Saigon.