Hoa Lo prision

Hoa Lo prision

Hoa Lo Prison was built in 1896, initially named Prison Centrale, but to avoid people's curiosity and excitement, it was changed to Maison Centrale and is now called Maison Centrale. The name is still on the main gate leading into the monument. This prison was built by the French in 1896 on the outskirts of the city with the purpose of serving as a central prison for both Central and Northern Vietnam. This place held mainly political prisoners and patriots who opposed the colonial government. Known as hell on earth, during its time of operation, Hoa Lo prison has become a detention place for many generations of Vietnamese revolutionary soldiers and activists with a prison architecture designed designed with extremely barbaric and cruel forms of torture and coercion. The most typical example is the guillotine machine, which has brought the prison to the top 10 most notorious prisons in the world. The total area of ​​the entire former prison area was more than 12,000 square meters. However, today only 2,434 square meters remain to be preserved to become a relic. Also because it was built on the land of Phu Khanh village, Vinh Xuong canton (formerly) is a craft village specializing in producing ceramics, day and night the kiln is blazing, so the village is also called Hoa Lo. During the French colonial period, Hoa Lo prison was designed and built with a structure consisting of 4m high, 0.5m thick stone walls reinforced with electric steel wires. The entire prison area is divided into 4 zones A, B, C, D. In which: - Areas A and B: For prisoners under investigation, unimportant prisoners or prisoners who violate prison discipline. - Area C: For French or foreign prisoners. - Area D: For prisoners awaiting death penalty Hoa Lo Prison is known as Hell on Earth with the prison's construction design allowing Hoa Lo to accommodate about 500 prisoners. The prisons are designed with harsh and extremely brutal detention and coercion regimes. From a famous pottery craft village, the French colonialists turned the land of Hoa Lo into a place of physical and mental imprisonment and exile of thousands of patriotic soldiers. Living in an imperial prison with a harsh detention and torture regime, the soldiers still maintained their morale and turned the prison into a school, a place to disseminate revolutionary theory. Some typical torture tools such as guillotines, electric cameras, canes... The French colonialists paid great attention to the construction of all door designs, locks, and shackles here. Specially brought from France, very tightly managed. Before it was completed, in January 1899, Hoa Lo prison took over the detention of people. According to the original design, this place was only enough to hold 500 prisoners, but the prison has been expanded many times to accommodate more prisoners. In the years 1950-1953, Hoa Lo imprisoned up to 2,000 prisoners. Becoming a living hell that no one wants to enter. Dungeons are considered a terrifying obsession for any prisoner with fiery slaps, beatings, being shackled, being shackled, eating, sleeping or toileting all in just a narrow space. dark. Most people who are locked up here for a while will suffer from edema and scabies due to lack of hygiene and sunlight. Surrounding the prison is a wall of stone and steel reinforced by a system of barbed wire with high voltage current running through it. The four corners are watchtowers capable of observing every move of the entire prison. The iron door and lock system was brought from France. The cells, dark rooms, and cells are cramped, lacking air, and the notorious prison guards, with many years of experience in prison management, are ready to oppress and even take the lives of prisoners. On June 18, 1997, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism recognized the furnace prison as a national historical relic. Source: Hanoi People Magazine

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