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Its French variant Grande-Condore was well-known during the times of French Indochina. Marco Polo mentioned the island in the description of his 1292 voyage from China to India under the name Sondur and Condur . [ 2 ]
The French Indochinese government named the group of islands Poulo-Condore Islands, a name that derives from the islands' Malay name Pulo Condore [6] (pulau meaning "island" and kundur meaning "wax gourd").
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 ...
In June 1862, the Treaty of Saigon was signed, resulting in Vietnam losing three rich provinces, Gia Dinh, My Tho, Bien Hoa, and the Poulo Condore Island, and allowing religious freedom along with paying war reparations of 4 million Mexican pesos to France. [12] [13] [14] [15]
French colonial authorities imprisoned him from 1930 to 1936 and again from 1939 to 1944. 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]
On 8 November, political opponents who had been imprisoned on the island of Poulo Condore were released by the military junta. Đán was garlanded and taken to military headquarters, and on 10 November, Suu was released and welcomed by a large crowd at the town hall. [48]
[12] [21] Those condemned were incarcerated in the Poulo Condore Island prison and the Chí Hòa Prison, with the last executions taking place in May 1951. [21] In May 1950, they were transferred to the Sugamo Prison in Tokyo where they came under the jurisdiction of the US Occupational Authorities.
He served his time on the notorious prison island of Poulo Condore. During the events of 1945, Chanh served with the Tranh Đấu (La Lutte) group and was apprehended by the Vietminh at Kien An, Thu Dau Mot and executed in October. Many of his fellow Trotskyists such as Phan Văn Hùm (d.1946) died or disappeared shortly after.