ในปี พ..ศ. ๒๔๗๓ ลุงตันได้ถูกจักรวรรดินิยมฝรั่งเศสตัดสินให้เนรเทศไปใช้แรงงานอยู่ที่คุก Poulo Condor บนเกาะ Con Sơn เขาถูกคุมขังหลายแห่งทั้งห้องขังหมายเลข 9, 15. หน่วยขนส่ง, หน่วยประมง รวมทั้งห้องขังที่ใช้ทำเป็นโรงสีข้าวด้วย...
“Uncle Ton (1888-1980) ‘s life and career” (Su That Publishing House) บรรยายว่า...
The rice-husking cell had a narrow area, three directions of tight walls, one direction of strong iron-bar hedge about 2 meters from the cell. Over 100 prisoners in fetters, 200 racks of paddy, 5 big mills and two big-sized fans hustled in a 150-square-meter cellar. The paddy mills were made of a sawed barrel crammed with clay and big dents. There must be 06 prisoners to be capable to run a paddy-mill. While running, the legs of two prisoners were tied jointly with a 5-kg dumbbell. The muffled sound of the fans, the roaring sound of the paddy-mill, the clanking sound of chains under the prisoners, the grinding sound of the millstone mixing with the sound of rods whipping on bare backs and the creaming, scolding voices of the scoundrel gangs form a mess of awful sounds in the rice-husking cell. Such a situation, from day to day, from 06:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m., the rice-husking cell was always in a condition of being cramped, noisy, hot and muggy, and stuffy. Within the distance of 1 meter, prisoners could not see each other because of the dense curtain of rice-husk. Rice-husk flew into eyes, causing sore, and then swollen and red eyes. Under such a harsh working condition, prisoners in rice-husking cell had their meals being austere. Rice was stale, fish were rotten, soup contained tough amaranth full of worm-eggs boiled in salt water. Edibles were full of sand. Unlike in hard-labor prison, the gang in the rice-husking cell had the authority to brutalize prisoners. They were so cruel as a flock of demons. The jailers only stood outside the iron-bar hedge to monitor the faith of those scoundrels whose ruffian manner had been activated by themselves. If the Poulo Condor’s Prison is called the Hell on Earth, the rice-husking cells must be “the Hades of Hell on Earth”.
ลุงตันเคยถูกตีตรวนให้ยืนสีข้าว ถือกระสอบข้าวเปลือก Ton Duc Thang Museum ได้จำลองให้เห็นสภาพห้องแคบ ๆ เต็มไปด้วยละอองแกลบที่ทำให้นักโทษต้องเจ็บป่วยล้มตาย!!...
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ฝรั่งเศสเนี่ยช่างโหดร้ายทารุณจริง ๆ !
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ที่มา - "ตะรุเตา" เว็บสำนักอุทยานแห่งชาติ, "Alcatraz Island" - Wikipedia, "Phu Hai Prison" - Lonely Planet, "The rice-husking cell in Poulo Condor's prison" - baotangtonducthang.com
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