So far, the world's population know the country of Vietnam as a place that has a myriad of beautiful women, and has a variety of exotic tourism destinations are exotic. However, it turns out that in Vietnam it also keeps the historical story of the past is very scary, the story is in one of the history located in the south of this country, where it is said there had lasted a life of hell past life. The historic site that holds these scary stories is the Phu Quoc Prison History Site, which was once a prison. This prison was once built by the French during the French colonial rule in Vietnam. This prison used to be used to arrest and torture the Vietnamese soldiers accused of being communist.
This historic site is located right in the district of Phu Quoc Island, which is in the province of Kien Giang, South Vietnam. Now, this former prison building becomes one of the tourist destinations that come from abroad as well. The Phu Quoc detention center is a silent witness to the acts of cruelty and abominations that the colonial regime and imperialism had once carried out. The prison is also listed as a heritage site of manifesting persistent fighting spirit and unyielding struggle of Vietnam revolutionaries who had been imprisoned and tortured for years for opposing ruthless colonialism and imperialism.
If the strangers on the world visit this one prison, you will be treated to a variety of scenes that make you shudder horror. How could it not be, because the visitors would be able to see the many sculptures in every corner of the building deliberately designed to describe the cruel acts of torture from the prison guards to the prisoners.
This prison of Phu Quoc has since its establishment until now is famous as the "World Hell" for its prisoners. This retirement home was once a place of detention of Vietnamese soldiers accused of communist. Phu Quoc stood on 400 hectares of land, deliberately built by the French colonialist government to arrest the Vietnamese patriots who dared to defy in the era of 1967. Where this horrible prison was also intentionally surrounded by hundreds of meters of fences made of barbed wire. This one prison was also very famous as a prison whose supervision was so strict that none of the prisoners there dared to try to escape. Phu Quoc Prison is the largest detention center in the country of South Vietnam, because it used to accommodate more than 32,000 prisoners of war. History notes that this prison has imprisoned more than 40,000 heads since its inception, including among them political prisoners of many periods.
The Phu Quoc prison has 12 areas already numbered, all of which were formerly guarded by 3 French military police battalions. Each area within the prison is able to accommodate up to 3000 prisoners. In addition to the tight guarding of the guards inside the prison, outside the prison was also applied to the guard that is not less tight, that there are reached 4 military police battalion assigned to guard this prison. The guard police were equipped with various types of hand guns and also military cars, where the guards were carried out intensively for 24 hours nonstop. Reportedly, there are about 4000 people who are declared dead in this prison, and thousands more are crippled for life because of the methods of torture ever imposed in this prison.
Why can it be called the World Hell? it is said that the prisoners of war that existed in Phu Quoc Prison were once very often experienced a very heinous torture process, ranging from beatings with blunt objects, to and methods of all body parts done every few hours. On the first day the prisoners get into this prison, they will be bombarded with hundreds of strokes from the officers, and it's done almost daily. Unfortunately not only that, prisoners are also paralyzed mentally continuously until they become insane. Torture and punishment are not only done once or twice, but every day. The prisoners were also often confined in the barbed wire cages, after which they were dried under the hot sun for several weeks, as the skin of the prisoners became blistered and became infected.
In the method of torture, many of them die of infection and dehydration. Not enough to get there, the prisoners are also often punished by climbing up a pole that has been fitted with barbed wire, and they are required to climb it to the top, after which they are forced to sag downward. The method of hitting the jailers was no less frightening, the prison guards deliberately used the sticks with a blunt end to beat the toes and fingers of the prisoners. With that stick also the prison guards deliberately thrashed the teeth of his prisoners. war as a collection of teeth to be a game. The decayed teeth were reportedly used for a collection of prison guards as a bet.
The name of the World Hell is certainly very compatible with this one prison. One of the most sadistic types of punishment ever recorded in this prison is the "Penalty of the Tiger Cage". This one punishment is a method of punishment that treats prisoners like an animal in a cage. The confinement used not just any confinement, is a kind of iron cage that has a height of only about 1 meter only, around the cage deliberately dililiti with rusty rust wire. It is in this iron cage that the prisoners of war are locked up, and forced to take no position to lie down at all, they must be able to stand for days, if they change gestures, they will be severed by very sharp wire.
Cruel again, if the weather conditions are very hot and scorching, then the prison guards will place a few pieces of hot coal burning stove in the iron cage, so the prisoners will be more hot with merciless. When the weather is very cold, the prisoners will also intentionally doused with ice water by the guards. Not until there, just before midnight, some guards would pull some prisoners out of the iron cage, which was none other than to be severely beaten. He said there had also been some prisoners who were suddenly dragged out at midnight, then his ankles, knees, and foreheads were deliberately nailed by the guards.
In a study that carried out the excavation, also found many bones in the area around this prison. Even the officers at this historical site often also find human bones still in the condition there are some iron spikes that are still embedded in the leg bone, knee bone, and skull bones, the length of the spikes is an average of 10cm. The findings of the human skeleton were still kept neatly in one of the rooms in the prison. It is said that the prisoners who had died tormented will be buried in a manner of perfunctory, like burying the carcass of an animal.
The complex of the historic site of the Phu Quoc Prison has attracted tens of thousands of foreign and domestic tourists every year. Often among the tourists it is a former prisoner of war who had served his sentence in that vile prison. At the time of Vietnam's struggle at that time, Phu Quoc Prison was a silent witness for many local fighters who insisted on defending their land from colonizers, in this prison also reveal many stories about the persistence and sacrifice of the revolutionary generation who desperately seize independence national.