Delegates of the Southeast region learn about untold stories at Son La Prison – Photo: HA QUAN
On April 25, groups of Dien Bien Phu Journey – River Desire and I Love My Fatherland Journey organized by the Central Youth Union and Central Vietnam Youth Union organized many meaningful activities in Son La city. La, Son La.
In the early morning, Secretary of the Central Youth Union Nguyen Tuong Lam and other groups offered incense and flowers at Uncle Ho’s Monument to ethnic minorities in the Northwest and the Memorial House of Martyrs and Heroes of Son La Prison.
After that, the group visited the Son La Prison Special National Monument. This is where many loyal communist soldiers are detained.
Son La Prison is considered “hell on earth” to destroy the will to fight and protest of loyal communists through handcuffs, foot shackles, and cruel torture. But unlike Hoa Lo, this place also has an “invisible” weapon – disease. Many prisoners died from weakness, malaria, dysentery…
Secretary of the Central Youth Union Nguyen Tuong Lam and the delegation listened to stories about loyal communist soldiers at Son La prison – Photo: HA QUAN
Representative of the Southeast cluster, Mr. Le Duc Dat – Deputy Head of Foreign Propaganda Department of the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union – expressed his emotion when participating in the Dien Bien Phu Journey – River aspirations through relics and historical places History of Hoa Binh, Son La, Dien Bien.
According to Mr. Dat, each monument and location is a different story, but they all depict the fighting and sacrifice of revolutionary soldiers.
Witnessing with his own eyes the cramped, cramped prisons and crime, and the brutal prison regime of the French colonialists, he became more deeply aware of the suffering of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for independence and freedom.
He confided that the journey helped him and the delegates of the Southeast cluster see the responsibility of young people in striving and promoting their expertise in building and protecting the country.
On the same morning, the delegation also organized a visit and gave gifts to the school, doctors, and students in the medical examination program “For a healthier Vietnam” at To Hieu primary school and started construction on the Happy House in the commune. Chieng Xom, Son La city.
Delegates from the Southeast cluster, including representatives of Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union and provincial unions of Binh Phuoc, Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Dong Nai, Tay Ninh, Binh Duong, and Binh Thuan, shared about the resilience and camaraderie of the Revolutionary soldiers at Son La prison – Photo: HA QUAN
A happy home brings so much hope
Secretary of the Central Youth Union Nguyen Tuong Lam on behalf of the union presented a happy house to Mr. Leo Van Luan’s family in Son La – Photo: HA QUAN
In the hot April weather of Son La, the youth union organized the groundbreaking of a Happy House for the family of Mr. Leo Van Luan, a former youth volunteer in difficult circumstances in group 3, Chieng An ward, Son city. La. The former youth volunteer could not help but feel emotional and thanked the delegation for helping his family have a new house.
About 100 meters from the construction start location, he enthusiastically introduced the old stilt house, which serves as both a living room and a bedroom. In the middle of the house there are only a few green mats spread to welcome guests from far away.
The former youth volunteer left his entire family with only the fields, vegetable garden and a few chickens. The income is only enough to eat a bowl of rice and soup to get by. A few years ago, the youth group covered the roof with fibro cement to protect from the sun and rain.
“I really hope to have a new house, my daughter is a kindergarten teacher, my other son has to work far away, it’s also difficult, he can only help with salt and rice, so I hope to have a sturdy house and live in peace of mind,” he said. speak.
On the same day, the group held an incense offering ceremony at the Martyrs Temple in the historical and cultural relic site of Pha Din Pass, Thuan Chau, Son La. This is where we and the French colonialists battled our wits about ensuring logistics.
Pha Din Pass is a high point, seen in all directions, considered “death’s door” blocking the supply route to Dien Bien Phu. Tens of thousands of young volunteers, civilians on the fire front… bravely opened the way to the front.
Previously, on April 24, Secretary of the Central Youth Union Nguyen Tuong Lam presented gifts to veterans, families of martyrs, wounded and sick soldiers, policy families, frame maps, and paper maps to the Hoa Binh Provincial Youth Union. , Son La Provincial Youth Union.
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