War Remnants Museum (Ho Chi Minh City)

by admin on May 13, 2010


The War Remnants Museum is a war museum in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam. It primarily contains exhibits relating to the American phase of the Vietnam War.The museum comprises a series of eight themed rooms in several buildings, with period military equipment located within a walled yard.One building reproduces the so-called tiger cages in which the South Vietnamese government housed political prisoners. Other exhibits include graphic photographs, accompanied by short copy in English, Vietnamese and Japanese, covering the effects of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliant sprays, the use of napalm and phosphorus bombs, and atrocities such as the My Lai massacre. Curiosities include a guillotine used by the French and the South Vietnamese to execute prisoners, last in 1960, and three jars of preserved human fetuses deformed by exposure to dioxin

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loglog7 May 13, 2010 at 11:21 pm

This museum is INCREDIBLEY biased (i spell ftw) there are no counts of Viet Cong butchery and the Viet Cong massacres. The Viet Cong killed people in cities who could not defend themselves and who opposed their beliefs.

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