Con Dao Prison


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Street address: 1 Lê Duẩn, Huyện Côn Đảo, Tỉnh Bà Rịa Vũng Tàu, Việt Nam
Telephone: 84 (0) 64 830517 (Exhibition Room), 84 (0) 64 830134 (Office)
Fax: 84 (0) 64 830598
Proprietor:Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Provincial Service of Culture and Information
Contact: Phan Hoàng Oanh Manager
Telephone: 84 (0) 64 830175, 84 (0) 91 864 8722 (mobile)
Contact: Lưu Văn Nhi Deputy Manager
Telephone: 84 (0) 64 630113, 84 (0) 91 395 7101 (mobile)
Opening hours: 7am-11.30am, 1.30pm-5pm daily, access by boat or chartered helicopter


Con Dao Prison (VNAT)Côn Lôn, largest of the islands in the Côn Đảo Archipelago (Quần Đảo Côn Đảo), became a French penal colony in 1862. Thereafter the prison became known as the ‘Hell of South East Asia’ where a total of over 200,000 prisoners were jailed and approximately 20,000 died in atrocious conditions. Those incarcerated in the prison’s infamous ‘tiger cages’ and ‘cow cages’ by the French and South Vietnamese regimes respectively included several leading Vietnamese revolutionaries. Today the many cells and punishment areas of the prison’s eight main barracks are preserved in memory of the country’s national heroes.


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