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Holy moly.

Okay, this is very impressive here.

This is the first time I see a guillotine in Rio.

One of the darkest times of Vietnamese history.

La Maison Centrale.

Through the sewers.

This is crazy.

It was dark, it was disgusting.

What human people could do to other human beings.

It's awful.

Yeah, I feel sad about everything I've seen today.

Hello everyone and welcome back to Addicted to Vietnam, I'm Paul from France.

Today I have the chance to educate myself about one of the darkest times of Vietnamese history.

I'm going to visit La Maison Centrale, which means Central Prison.

In Vietnamese they call it Poilhau Prison.

Let's go buy the tickets.

Being a French guy living in Vietnam, I've been asked a lot about Vietnam and France history.

Because you know we have some history back then.

Hello, can I have one ticket please?

30, can I have audio guide right?

Audio guide inside.

Inside, okay so one ticket.

Quickly gonna wash my hands.

Let's go.

Thank you very much.

This way?

Okay.

Thank you.

Hello, can I have an English audio guide please?

Yes, 100,000.

100, yeah sure.

Here we go.

This prison was built in 1896 by the French colonials

and it was meant to contain the Vietnamese revolutionaries who were opposing to the colonial government.

As you can see here, they built this very tall wall in the hut of the city

and at the top we can see some pieces of glasses restraining people from escaping from it.

Okay, let's go inside the prison and as you can see it's already very dark.

We are now in another camp where most of political, male political prisoners were held.

As you can see, each one of them were chained and they had to stay all day like that.

Can you imagine, like, there were sometimes hundreds of people just held here, which is really overcrowded.

I can't imagine living in this condition.

Now, as you can see here, there were just only two toilets for all the prisoners, and they had to use them in front of everyone.

And anytime the prisoners were complaining about it, well, the jailers were simply forbidden,

they were forbidding to empty the bucket of the toilets, spreading very bad smell and of course disease in the camp here.

But the Vietnamese prisoners were so brave, they managed to use the toilet as a hidden place for the documents.

Every evening at 6 pm when the doors were closing, they were taking the documents.

So the documents were held in metal boxes and could be newspapers or propaganda articles,

etc. that the prisoners will read to each other.

They will even write articles.

They had pens, papers so they can still participate to the revolution while being here which is amazing

so right now there is only 31 mankens imagine

that before the minimum was 50 and could reach up to 100 people

so right now just 30 people it's already quite crowded i can't imagine 100 people just sitting here.

They say that they have to alternate these people on top

and in the bottom here because there's not enough space for everyone this is crazy

so here we have the dungeon in french we call it

the cachot you can see still the sign here cachot which means dungeon in french

So this is an example of the cell of the cash show here.

As you can see up to two people could be changing here and just be holding this for a very long time.

If you look inside you can see the only ventilation they have are those two small windows on the top.

So it's very bad condition.

You can barely see inside.

Right now we have the light, but I cannot imagine with the door closed, it's almost you see nothing inside.

That's awful conditions.

If you look at it, you can see that the floor is actually inclined.

Why?

It's just to make it the most uncomfortable possible for the prisoners.

When they were sitting down, they always have to hold their bodies with their arms, and when they are lying down the blood will not circulate normally

and will all go up to the head making it very uncomfortable

so we have this very claustrophobic atmosphere here

and also discomfort one more thing is they had to do their needs on the spot like

if they had to pee they have to poo they would

do it right here on themselves it's really look like a

grave basically it's like you really have this sensation of being in a grave this feeling of death awful

I feel bad for those people, really.

Especially knowing that it's my ancestors that did that.

I know I'm not responsible for it.

It's the past, but still, I feel very bad about it.

What is very touching also is to see how these prisoners managed to stay alive while being in this prison.

For example, you see this tree here.

It's an almond tree.

And the prisoners were using it.

They were using the leaves for bandage or medicines medicines.

So this tree is a big part of the prison, obviously.

The branches they are using to make flutes and other accessories like this, which is so creative.

I'm not surprised, you know, because I can see even today how Vietnamese are very resourceful with nature, how they know about this.

It's written here also that political prisoners could discuss about fighting against the enemy.

It's amazing, it's still standing right now.

So this is the sewer from which the prisoners, more than 100 prisoners escaped.

Can you imagine living in Hanoi and suddenly you see 100 prisoners coming out of the sewer?

It must be something.

They cut the bars here off the window of the sewer, the entrance of the sewer,

and with the copy of the keys opened all the cells and a lot of prisoners escaped through the sewers.

It was dark, it was disgusting, but thanks to the map they managed to escape from the prison.

And most of them were catch-up, but five of them managed to get out of the prison after that.

I mean, I can't imagine going through what they've been...

Here it's a representation of the sewer from where they escaped.

You see how small it is.

This is crazy.

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Not only male prisoners were kept in this prison, also female.

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We are now in the area detention for female.

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So here we have the cell, an example of a cell for the women and the children.

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It's very small.

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Can you imagine that just children were kept here?

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Holy moly!

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Okay, this is very impressive here.

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This is the first time I see a guillotine in real.

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So behind me is the French famous guillotine here.

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It was used to execute prisoners, like more than 400 prisoners were executed by this blade.

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and the worst part is probably that prisoners themselves had to clean, had to maintain the guillotine.

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Every week they were spending two days cleaning the blades and cleaning every part of the guillotine here.

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Also the guillotine could be transported in other places.

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Sometimes the executions were taking place in the hometown of the prisoners to scare revolutionists.

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So in this group they describe all the type of torture that were given to the prisoners.

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It's actually so awful that I don't feel comfortable about speaking in details about them.

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So I'm just, yeah, I'm just gonna move to the next room from now.

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So here are the cells of the condemned prisoners.

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So those prisoners were condemned to be executed and had to stay in those cells separated from the others,

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pretty close to the exit here.

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And in these very tiny cells they were allowed just to go out of the cell, like to stand up for just a few hours a day, that's it, waiting for their death.

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So they could, as you can see, they were chained by the ankles, so they couldn't move.

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They just could sit, lay down on the bench and that's it.

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It's so dark.

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It's so, so dark.

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This must be so scary.

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So here I'm standing on where the prisoners were taking their showers.

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It's a very small space, just not much water here can stand.

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I guess that's what they call the swimming pool earlier, the one I saw on the map.

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The prisoners could take a shower only once a week.

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There was hundreds of them, just right here, and so they had only 15 minutes to wash themselves and then go back to the sails.

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So very poor amount of water just to clean yourself a week standing in your sails with all this very bad hygiene.

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So during winter the prisoners complained about the amount of water, very poor amount of water they could use and also the time they could use.

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The warden of the prison agreed to that but in a very bad way.

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He said okay you can take a longer time for the shower

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and use more amount of water but you will have to shower at 5 a.m

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so can you imagine at 5 a.m during winter time it must be freezing out there yeah

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that must be very painful for them in 1973 during the

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Vietnamese American war some American pilots were actually kept in this prison during these times the nickname

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that Americans gave to this prison was the

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Hanoi Hilton just to see the irony behind

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that it's yeah it's crazy yeah the condition were so different

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when you see they could go to church for Christmas they had the Christmas trees like

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and look at the meals they had you can see the huge difference between the condition

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when the Vietnamese were and the Americans, like the condition of prison between Americans and Vietnamese.

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When you see that they're playing cards, they are like having tea with journalists,

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they have guitars here, so they will probably play music.

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So I understand now the name of the Hilton of Hanoi.

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They look happy most, I mean look at that, they're all smiling.

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Look at them, they're all smiling on the photos and just playing.

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So here we have the sentry box, that's where the guards were standing up to have a look all over the prisons, to keep an eye on the prison.

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It was occupied 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to make sure no one was trying to escape him.

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Despite that, Vietnamese people still managed to find ways to escape.

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I'm keeping an eye on people.

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I feel like I'm in prison now.

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I'm the one in prison.

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Let me go!

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Let me go!

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Let me go!

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So this is, I guess this is a memorial to remember all the people who died here who were kept in this prison.

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Here we reach the end of the tour of the Hualo prison.

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This is really an eye-opening experience that I advise you to do during your trip to Hanoi.

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I learned a lot about the condition of the prisoners and how everything happened here.

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And I have to say, of course, usually I'm very proud of my country, but in this kind of moment, I'm quite ashamed of what my people could do,

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what human people could do to other human beings.

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It's awful and I just wish this never happened again, of course.

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Like I said before, this is part of the past.

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It's here unfortunately, but it's done.

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And the good news is that today we are in peace.

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Our people are in peace.

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And I'm very happy about it because I enjoy living in this country.

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I love this country.

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And yeah, I'm very sorry for what my ancestors did to you, of course.

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I feel uncomfortable a bit.

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This is a very sad moment.

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I feel sad about everything I've seen today.

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I'm a bit emotional to be honest.

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So the Hualo prison is not the only place you can visit in Hanoi.

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There are many museums like this you can visit.

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But this one is a must to do, a must to see.

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After watching this video, I hope you are motivated to come here and learn more about this dark time.

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And I hope you are even more addicted to Vietnam now.

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I'll see you next time everyone.

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Thank you for watching.

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Bye-bye.

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