Dak Glei Prison

Dak Glei Prison

Dak Glei Prison belongs to Dak Choong commune, Dak Glei district, Kon Tum province. The Dak Glei Prison historical relic cluster includes three small works: The guard post area, Can An Tri area and the Prison area. The entire relic area is located on hills, surrounded by high mountains, streams, and valleys. Dak Glei Prison was built by the French colonialists in 1932, where Vietnamese revolutionary soldiers were detained in the years 1932 - 1954. At the same time, the colonialists also quarantined influential revolutionary activists. with a plot to control the entire Central Highlands. Initially, Dak Glei prison only detained people who did not submit to the ruling policies of the French colonialists and their henchmen. But since the end of 1939, the French colonialists have turned this place into a place to imprison communist soldiers after intensifying the repression of the revolutionary movement. Not only is it the place where famous revolutionary poets like To Huu were imprisoned, this is also where many key Party figures were arrested such as Nguyen Duy Trinh, Chu Huy Man, Huynh Ngoc Hue, Le Van Hien, Tran Van Tra , Le Ba Tu, Ha Phu Huong and Nguyen Tat Thang. Dak Glei Prison is a rectangular architectural work, consisting of one floor, an area of ​​about 200m2, 19.85m wide, 10.2m deep, including 4 rooms. Located opposite Dak Glei prison through a yard about 20 meters wide is a one-story house with 2 small rooms, also built of stone, the outer room is the guard station, the other is the kitchen. From Dak Glei prison, going down the hillside about 150m is a "solitary prison" about 12m2 wide, built from February to June 1942 right after the escape of two patriotic revolutionaries, To Huu. and Huynh Ngoc Hue. In this prison, the space is both stuffy and gloomy, full of chains and shackles... Located between the prison and the station area is the An Tri prison with rows of prison cells built of bamboo and wood. Each prison has a stall for prisoners to lie down with their heads facing the middle, their feet shackled to the outside, each stall holds about 20 prisoners. In the evening, guards often count feet to check the number of prisoners. Because it was only built of bamboo and unstable wood, the An Tri stretch area currently has no traces of the construction due to differences between recorded documents, and it is impossible to estimate the exact number of 2 or 3. female. Dak Glei Prison is also known by Kon Tum people by another familiar name, To Huu Prison, because during the anti-French period, this was the place where the famous revolutionary and poet To Huu was imprisoned. This place is associated with the spectacular prison escape story of poet To Huu here. Specifically, in early 1942, To Huu and comrade Huynh Ngoc Hue planned to escape from prison. After that event, the French colonialists terrorized other communist soldiers and arrested our people's comrades in An Tri camp and imprisoned them. Today, the relic site has been being restored and renovated, the road system to the relic has also been invested and built smoothly, worthy of being a revolutionary red address, with great educational significance, a A proud symbol of the resilient fighting spirit of revolutionary soldiers. On December 30, 1991, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism recognized Dak Glei Prison as a National Historical Site. Source: Kon Tum province electronic information portal

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