Kon Tum Prison

Kon Tum Prison

"Kon Tum Prison" is located at Truong Quang Trong Street, Quyet Thang Ward, Kon Tum City. "Kon Tum Prison" reflects an early historical period of the movement to fight against invaders in our country. Kon Tum Prison was built by the French colonialists from 1905 to the end of 1917. Kon Tum Prison was built next to a large ditch next to the prison on the East-North side of Street 14 (now Phan Dinh Phung Street - Ho Chi Minh Highway running through Kon Tum city); West - South is the green loincloth soldier station; East - South is the embassy, ​​the puppet leader's palace, and the Police Department. They placed Kon Tum Prison under siege and isolation. To facilitate control, they dug a deep trench 150m long, 100m wide, designed four rows of houses in a box shape (square) with an area of ​​about 2.5 hectares, four corners of the prison had 4 bunkers built up, guarded day and night. secure room. The prison is built in the style of the old French fortress Vauban (Vo-ice) of the 17th century. The roof is tiled, the walls are made of whitewashed tocsi, the four sides are not covered by walls like other prisons, four cells are vertical and horizontal. built together into a square, each 18m side has a door and two high huts so the guards can observe inside and outside the prison; In the middle is a small, narrow square yard, the width of a row is 3.5m, of which 2m is laid with planks, 1.5m is a path, people lying on the plank floor can see outside the yard. Kon Tum Prison is a place to detain political prisoners escorted by the French colonialists from Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Thua Thien Hue, and is also a place to provide workers to explore the plateau and open Road 14. According to numbers According to records, this place held about 500 political prisoners and nearly half of them died. Specifically, during the 6-month process of building Road 14, the French colonialists exploited prisoners of war's labor to the point of exhaustion, leading to the death of 210 people in this place. During the years of resistance against the French, Kon Tum prison was considered the most brutal killing place. Kon Tum Prison was once the site of many protests by communist soldiers to protest against forcing prisoners to build roads in Dak Po. Although the protests here were all brutally massacred by the French colonialists, this sacrifice made them admit defeat and was forced to close in 1935. It can be said that Kon Tum prison is proof of this. denouncing the barbaric crimes that the French colonialists committed against our people in the period 1930 - 1931. At the same time, this is also a symbol of the resilience and indomitable struggle to protect the Fatherland of communist soldiers. in Kon Tum land. In 1975, when the war ended, Kon Tum prison became a historical relic of South Vietnam. After the ruins of the war, today only the graves and memorial stele of 8 revolutionary soldiers remain. In 1990, Kon Tum prison was recognized as a national historical and cultural relic site. Source: Kon Tum province electronic information portal

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