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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.
Members of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973. Unlike U.S. service members captured in World War II and the Korean War, who were mostly enlisted troops, the overwhelming majority of Vietnam-era POWs were officers, most of them Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps airmen; a relatively small number of ...
This category contains operational and former Vietnamese prisons ... Pages in category "Prisons in Vietnam" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total
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 ...
Prisoners of war held by Vietnam (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Prisoners and detainees of Vietnam" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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Prisoner-of-war camps, or regular prisons holding soldiers or suspected guerillas, run by any side during the Vietnam War. Pages in category "Vietnam War prisoner-of-war camps" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
On 25 March 1973, during the return of POWs as part of the Paris Peace Accords, 210 PAVN POWs from the camp refused repatriation to North Vietnam. [4] On 3 June 1974 PAVN/VC rockets hit the prison, killing 29 and wounding 63, most of those killed were female political prisoners and their children. [5]