War Remnants Museum - Part 2 (Con Dao Jail and a special surprise)

Sorry for the delay in getting these photos up. Of the two other parts of the War Remnants Museum (the abandoned and captured US military equipment and the anti war / pro Vietnam reunification struggle literature), I was able to see the infamous "Tiger Cages" of Con Dao Jail.

Con Dao is an island is found in the South China Sea 220 Km south of Ho Chi Minh City. Now a nature reserve, the island was formerly a French penal colony and used to imprison communists during the war.

The tiger cages kind of speak for them self. Even though the figure in the cage is a mannequin, it still made me a bit uncomfortable to look at. I'm not sure if this was the aim of the people that put together the museum, but if it was, then mission accomplished.

Finally, you see the gift of French colonial occupation, the guillotine. In my life, I never thought that I would see one of these up close. It was also pretty chilling to know that this was used to eliminate the communists during the war. The guillotine was last used in 1960 on Mr Hoang Le Kha, a member of the Provincial Committee of the Vietnamese workers Party in Tay Ninh province.

 


 


 


 


 


 


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