Shocked By The Hell On Earth In Con Dao

“I visit three of the most notorious former prisons of the French and American eras in Vietnam in the Côn Đảo Islands

From 1862 to 1975, this small piece of paradise just 250km south of current-day Ho Chi Minh City was hell on earth for political prisoners, many of whom would go on to found modern Vietnam, with the treatment they experienced widely regarded as comparable (even worse) to Devil’s Island of Papillon fame in French Guiana. Thousands never made it out alive” – Reviewed by Ticket To Ride on Youtube