Tiger cages for men
Con Dao is an artipelago province outside the south of Vietnam.
When westernes think of Vietnam we often think of the war, even if most of the young people here want to forget about the war. It's history here now.
But the party wants the people to remember, because it was the communist that won the war - even to the cost of about three million dead Vietnamese people.
I'm in Con Son now, the biggest island in the artipelago.
I have just visited the Tiger cages.
It's not a pleasant experience.
I visited first the French prison, then the American one.
They were quite similar, as if the americans just had copied a model.
From 1954 it was the South Viet Governement that took over the use from the Frenchmen who started the whole thing.
But the Americans built a new prison with tiger cages as late as 1971, only years before the peace.
I'm sure they let the south Vietnamese people do the dirty job there.
So this is the country from which the man of peace, Thich Nath Hanh came from.
But also the land that didn't let him in after a journey to the US.
Maybe the experience of the war made love peace even more....
The land is full of contradictions, but that is also what makes it interesting.
As, Juval Harari says; it's contradictions, as the fact that we all want both equality and freedom, that makes a society go forward.
When westernes think of Vietnam we often think of the war, even if most of the young people here want to forget about the war. It's history here now.
But the party wants the people to remember, because it was the communist that won the war - even to the cost of about three million dead Vietnamese people.
I'm in Con Son now, the biggest island in the artipelago.
I have just visited the Tiger cages.
It's not a pleasant experience.
I visited first the French prison, then the American one.
They were quite similar, as if the americans just had copied a model.
From 1954 it was the South Viet Governement that took over the use from the Frenchmen who started the whole thing.
But the Americans built a new prison with tiger cages as late as 1971, only years before the peace.
I'm sure they let the south Vietnamese people do the dirty job there.
So this is the country from which the man of peace, Thich Nath Hanh came from.
But also the land that didn't let him in after a journey to the US.
Maybe the experience of the war made love peace even more....
The land is full of contradictions, but that is also what makes it interesting.
As, Juval Harari says; it's contradictions, as the fact that we all want both equality and freedom, that makes a society go forward.
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