Almost all of us had heard about the Hanoi Hilton, the most infamous of the Vietnam prisons holding American prisoners of war beween 1964 and 1973. Most of these terrible places were in or around the northern city of Hanoi. Vietnam's message at the Hanoi Hilton is of man's inhumanity to his fellow man, but it wasn't exactly what we had expected.

This prison was built by the French more than one hundred years ago, to detain Vietmanese dissidents, and it is now a museum. Its many exhibits show the suffering of the ... (more)