Can Tho Grand Examination

Can Tho Grand Examination

The Can Tho Grand Prison historical relic is currently located at No. 8, Ngo Gia Tu Street, Tan An Ward, Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City. To serve the ruling apparatus in Can Tho, from 1876 to 1886, the French colonialists promoted the construction of many agencies and offices... including a prison named "Prison Provinciale". The prison was built on an area of ​​3,762 square meters, adjacent to the Governor's Palace, opposite the Administrative Building and separate from the residential area, people often call it Can Tho Grand Prison. When the Geneva Agreement was signed in 1954, the Saigon government changed the name of Can Tho province to Phong Dinh province, and the Can Tho Grand Prison was renamed the Correctional Center. But no matter what name it is called, Can Tho Grand Prison is essentially a hell on earth - a place where imperialist colonialists imprison and exile our revolutionary soldiers and patriotic compatriots. The Big Examination Gate has an arch shape, on the left of the gate is the office of the on-duty supervisor, on the right is the office and residence of the chief supervisor. The large prison is surrounded by a wall from 3.6m to 5m high, covered with pieces of bottles and barbed wire. At each corner of the wall is a 6m high watchtower with guards and floodlights at night to control prisoners. Inside the large prison, there are 21 collective cells and many solitary confinement cells. Between the prison rows is a large yard for prisoners to sunbathe. In this yard, the colonialists and imperialists also built pagodas and churches to show respect for the prisoners' beliefs and religion. Around 1963, two rows of buildings were built on the yard behind the temple, the ground floor had no walls - for a time it was used as a vocational guidance house for prisoners... The prescribed capacity in each collective cell is only about 30 to 40 people, but sometimes the number of prisoners reaches 70 to 80 people. Especially after the Southern Uprising, the enemy crazy used all tricks to terrorize and take revenge on our people. Many leaders, party members and the masses were imprisoned by the French colonialists at the Can Tho Grand Prison. In addition, the enemy also brought hundreds of people participating in the uprising and leading comrades in the provinces of Soc Trang, Bac Lieu, Ca Mau... here to detain and brutally torture them. Especially during the period when US imperialism used the "Law promulgated by the Republic of Vietnam regime on May 6, 1959 to terrorize and restrain our people, arresting all those suspected of being "Viet Cong", At this time, the number of prisoners in each room sometimes reached more than 100 people. Many prisoners could not endure the regime of imprisonment, torture, and harsh food and had to slowly die in this dark prison. The remaining people were infected with all kinds of diseases: scabies, malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis... For special political prisoners, the enemy was locked up in solitary confinement cells, tortured to the point of paralysis but still alive. loyalty to the Party and the people, keeping integrity until the last breath. Despite extreme torture, the Party comrades in prison still had Party Cells, Party Committees, study activities, and organized struggles with the enemy every hour and every minute, resolutely preserving revolutionary qualities. It is the indomitable fighting spirit and patriotism of political prisoners that has inspired and enlightened the revolution by many prison guards and guards, and they volunteered to be our internal base. Inform political prisoners of our situation and the enemy outside to take precautions or have strategies to fight the enemy in prison. The South was completely liberated, and Can Tho Grand Prison became a deeply engraved evidence of the indelible crimes of colonialism and imperialism. It is here that so many outstanding people from their hometown of Can Tho and neighboring provinces have fallen to contribute to writing the glorious and heroic history of the nation. On June 28, 1996, the Ministry of Culture and Information ranked Can Tho Grand Prison as a national historical relic. Source: Can Tho tourism information portal

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