Yangon Central Prison

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The central prison of Rangoon (English Rangoon Central Gaol ) was in Rangoon , Myanmar . It was where the New General Hospital is now, north of Bo Gyoke Road. It was demolished in the post-war period. Today the Insein Prison is the main prison in the region.

history

On June 24, 1930, the prisoners rose in the wake of other unrest. 34 of a total of around 2000 inmates were shot.

During the Second World War , the Japanese housed 600 Allied prisoners of war here. On April 25, 1945, the Japanese withdrew. At times 13 Irish nuns were also interned.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Warren: The Rangoon jail riot of 1930 and the prison administration of British Burma. In: South East Asia Research , Vol. 10, No. 1 (March 2002), pp. 5-29
  2. ^ Ian Brown: Burma's Economy in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013, pages 57–58
  3. ↑ https://www.pacificwrecks.com/provinces/burma_rangoon_prison.html
  4. ↑ https://bringhomec47.wordpress.com/history/rangoon-central-jail/
  5. ↑ https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/rangoon-jail.html

Coordinates: 16 ° 46 ′ 53.5 "  N , 96 ° 8 ′ 42.8"  E