DAK LAK -The exile house with intact cells and cells where many patriotic houses are kept is now an important historical relic, attracting tourists to visit.
Buon Ma Thuot exile house was established and built by the French colonialists in the period 1930 – 1931, to exile special people and detain captured cadres and party members in the central provinces of Central Vietnam. Among them many were the pioneers in the struggles of the Soviet Nghệ Tĩnh movement.
The building has an area of 2 ha, with many work items such as: prison house, manager house, medical house, kitchen – dining, teaching house, torture area, workshop, chapel, table area. paper … These works were built and operated through two phases: 1931-1945 during the French colonial period and 1954-1975 during the war against the US.
There are 6 main prison houses, numbered from 1 to 6. All stretches, high windows with iron bars, solid walls, tiled roofs, barbed wire mesh above the ceiling to prevent prison. prison break.
The prisoners’ places are the shelves close to the wall. Depending on the sentence and the “level of danger” that the prisoner is shackled or not.
True to the name of the exile, inmates here, especially political prisoners, live extremely hard and are often brutally tortured and beaten.
Prisoners must work hard on construction sites, plantations or in factories under the close supervision of prison guards and guards. The photo shows the prisoner’s labor scene in the factory.
The desk area is the place to receive prisoners. Prison guards torture and beat prisoners before interrogating and distributing prisoners.
In addition to the six collective cells, there is also a cell. This is a solitary confinement place for loyal soldiers who led the struggles, protests and prison breaks. Here, each person is confined in a room about 2 square meters wide, dark and damp, with 24/24 shackles and all activities carried out on the spot.
Recreate a form of torture against prisoners: sunbathing in a concrete yard, feet chained to a large, heavy sphere.
However, brutal hardship and oppression did not subdue the will of the communists and patriots. Communist prisoners have turned prisons into revolutionary schools.
In many ways, free from the grip and supervision of the guards, leaflets, documents and books were still passed on hand in hand in the prison. Many communist soldiers grew up in jails, in revolutionary schools like that.
This work is the management area of the exile house, which is now a gallery. Inside, there is an altar of President Ho Chi Minh and communist soldiers who died in the cause of the national liberation revolution, a room to honor loyal communists.
In the gallery, there are many documents, images and exhibits about the construction of the Buon Ma Thuot exile house, the movement of fighting in labor, the development of the Communist Party in the exile and of Dak Lak province.
Notebooks and revolutionary books of prisoners currently kept in the gallery are historical evidence.
Buon Ma Thuot Exiled House relic was restored in 1992, 2006 and put into operation, serving the needs of visiting, learning and researching the history of the people.
The exile received a special National Monument rating in 2019. The work is located on Tan Thuat Street, Tu An Ward, about 1 km southeast of Buon Ma Thuot city center. The ticket price for an adult is 20,000 VND; children are 10,000 VND.
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