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The most famous site in this prison are the "tiger cages" (chuồng cọp). The French tiger cages cover an area of 5.475 m 2, within which each cell occupies 1.408 m 2, solariums occupy 1.873 m 2, and other spaces occupy 2.194 m 2. The prison includes 120 cells. The prison was closed after the end of the Vietnam War and opened for visitors ...
The French imprisoned him in one of the "tiger cage" cells on the prison located on the island of Poulo Condore (modern Côn Sơn Island) in the South China Sea. Poulo Condore was regarded as the harshest prison in all of French Indochina. [5] During his time in the "tiger cage", Thọ suffered from hunger, heat, and humiliation.
The prison was built in 1949–1950 by French colonialists as a place to detain political dissidents. During the Vietnam War, it was used for the detention of captured Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. The prison covered an area of 40,000 square metres (0.015 sq mi).
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Dozens of tigers and lions in captivity died in the past month in southern Vietnam with tests showing they were positive for bird flu, health ministry and state media said on Thursday. Two samples ...
In this episode, they spotlight the service of U.S. Army Veteran Ken Wallingford, who fought during the Vietnam War and was held as a Prisoner of War (POW) in Cambodia for ten months.
One building reproduces the "tiger cages" in which the South Vietnamese government kept political prisoners. Other exhibits include graphic photography, [ 7 ] accompanied by a short text in English, Vietnamese and Japanese, covering the effects of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliant sprays, the use of napalm and phosphorus bombs, and war ...
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