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  Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngo Dinh Diem was born in Vietnam in 1901.
Diem, like previous generations of his family, was educated in French Catholic schools.
Diem refused to accept this and instead began arresting his opponents.
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 123Student
Elections were planned to be held during 1956 to resolve the division of Vietnam, but the U.S. supported Ngo Dihn Diem's refusal to hold the elections, believing that Ho Chi Minh would win.
South Vietnam South Vietnamese Government Loses Support Ngo Dinh Dem was elected in 1955, and was very popular at first, but public support, as well as that of military officers and cabinet ministers, gradually disappeared.
This was mainly because Diem's brother and adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu, was able to give orders to officers and military units.
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 Ngo Dihn Diem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ngo Dihn Diem was the first President of South Vietnam.
Diem took away land from Buddhists, an awarded it to Catholics.
Ngo Dihn Diem was overthrown, and assassinated by his own generals in 1963.
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 RRojas Databank: The Róbinson Rojas Archive.-The United States and its friendly dictators.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ngo Dinh Diem oppressed the Vietnamese people so badly that many of them turned to the communists for protection from his ruthless rule.
The CLP was not even their idea, it was orginally promoted by the US State Department to rid the country of communists.
But when Diem was finally overhrown and assassinated in 1963, none of his generals rose to defend him.
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 Thichquangduc.SB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He did it in protest to Ngo Dihn Diem's policies.
Diem was a Roman Catholic who favored Roman Catholics.
John F. Kennedy told Diem to stop the persecution of the Buddhists monks, but Diem would not listen.
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 Diem and Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem and Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem was born in Vietnam in the early 1900’s.
JFK stated at the Geneva Convention that, “Ngo Dihn Diem should be the new ruler of South Vietnam to prevent the spread of communism” (Kolko 181).
After the United States appointed and helped Ngo Din Diem become the leader of South Vietnam they sent advisors over to Vietnam to better assess the situation and to try to convince other leaders who opposed Diem and/or thought he was dangerous.
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In the early 1950’s the CIA brought Ngo Dihn Diem to New York City, where he was trained, by Cardinal Francis “burn-em alive” Spellman, in the procedures of turning VietNam into a Roman Catholic state.
Diem then changed laws that reflected a total bias in favor of Catholics (and against all other religions).
Thinking Spellman would take care of Kennedy and to keep on his schedule of "conversion", Diem continued the killings: fearing exposure of the connection of the Catholic church to the killings: Kennedy has Diem and his brother killed in a CIA backed coup, 2 Nov 1963(effectively stopping the genocide).
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 Overview of Vietnam War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The civil war quickly escalated after the President of the Republic of Vietnam (South), Ngo Dihn Diem, cancelled elections for the reunification of Vietnam (1956).
Insurgent opposition for Ngo Dihn Diem’s government arose for after 1956, in the form of a military group called the Viet Cong.
Unable to suppress the guerilla tactics of the Viet Cong, Diem sought for external aid to combat the newly formed National Liberation Front (NLF) political party.
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 Wikipedia: 1963
October 9 - In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when the Vaiont Dam breaks after a large landslide behind the dam causes water to overtop it.
November 2 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem is assassinated following a military coup.
November 6 - Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
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 Friendly Dictators
Even President Eisenhower admitted that "had elections been held, possibly 80% of the population would have voted for Ho Chi Minh, the communist leader".
The CLP was not even their idea, it was originally promoted by the US State Department to rid the country of communists.
But when Diem was finally overthrown and assassinated in 1963, none of his generals rose to defend him.
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 Vietnam War - Zack de la Rocha Network Forum
But in the peace deal that was signed, the Vietnamese had agreed to a temporary partition of the country between North and South Vietnam (with the North under the Viet Mihn), after which elections would be held for a unified national government.
In response the Mihn government, with weapons provided by Russia and Chian or captured from the French during the first war, sent supplies and soldiers into the South to aid the Viet Cong geurrillas in overthrowing Diem so the country could be re-unified (under a Communist government of course).
Finally, when Diem couldn't defeat the guerrillas or get most of the people to support him, the Americans instigated a coup against him and set up a military junta.
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Diem alienated urban professionals by suppressing all opposition to his regime.
In an effort to keep Diem in power, the US tried to persuade him to make political reforms.
Samuel Doe came to power in a bloody 1980 coup, a Master Sergeant in military gear.
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 The Casualties of the War in Vietnam
When Diem's infamous actions finally led to the formation of The National Liberation Front, the American public was duped into believing that the civil rebellion was being waged by puppets from Hanoi.
As Douglas Pike wrote: "In horror, Americans helplessly watched Diem tear apart the fabric of Vietnamese society more effectively than the Communists had ever been able to do it.
Since Diem's death we have actively supported another dozen military dictatorships all in the name of fighting for freedom.
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 Which president was responsible for sending American troops to Vietnam, called 'advisors,' to assist Ngo Dihn Diem's ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Which president was responsible for sending American troops to Vietnam, called 'advisors,' to assist Ngo Dihn Diem's soldiers in strategic areas, thereby starting U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War?
Eisenhower sent the first advisors over in the late 50s, but he was President until 1961.
If you believe this answer is in error, please submit a correction note.
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 Navy SEALs.com - US Navy SEAL History Vietnam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He realized that the U.S. might aid the South in its establishment, but he did not foresee that South Vietnam would find grounds to cancel the elections.
The Americans supported the Premier of South Vietnam, Ngo Dihn Diem, who replaced the self-exiled Bao Dai.
Ngo Dihn Diem gradually increased his sphere of power, while the United States began to assume the role of supporter left vacant by the French.
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 NAVYSEALS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He realized that the South might be aided in its establishment by the U.S., but he did not foresee that South Vietnam, not being a part of the original agreement, would find grounds to cancel the elections.
The American supported Premier of South Vietnam, Ngo Dihn Diem, who replaced the self-exiled Bao Dai, gradually increased his sphere of power, while the United States began to assume the role of supporter left vacant by the French.
Cambodia, self-declared neutral and led by one man, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, was the only state involved which refused to sign the Geneva Agreement.
www.navyseals.com /hist/vietnam.html   (2853 words)

  
 H1910
1963 Jun 10, Buddhist monk Ngo Quang Duc died by self immolation in Saigon to protest persecution by the Diem government.
Diem was too much respected among simple, gullible people in the countryside." A 3rd brother was later tricked into surrendering to US forces and was turned over to coup leaders and killed by firing squad.
President Diem of South Vietnam was overthrown and murdered.
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 JFK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Some historians believe that President Lyndon B. Johnson, upon succeeding Kennedy, deepened the U.S. commitment out of eagerness not to be seen as the first U.S. president to lose a war.
Historian Ronald Spector of George Washington University said that the execution of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem three weeks before Kennedy's assassination in 1963 may have been more decisive than the change at the top of the U.S. government.
The document on plans for withdrawal was among 800 pages of Joint Chiefs of Staff records that were made public on December 22, 1997 by the government's Assassination Records Review Board.
www.gpc.edu /~yliu/papr/jfk.htm   (194 words)

  
 Assassination of President Diem, 1963 - 1963ÄêÎâÍ¢ÑÓ×ÜͳÔⰵɱ (English to Chinese translation ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Assassination of President Diem, 1963 - 1963ÄêÎâÍ¢ÑÓ×ÜͳÔⰵɱ (English to Chinese translation glossary) Government / Politics,
November 2 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem is assassinated following
of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh...
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 JESUIT Vatican Tyranny
Cardinal Francis "Burn-em Alive" Spellman (trainer of Ngo Dihn Diem, president and butcher of South Vietnamese Buddhists) was the one person the F.B.I. consulted to persuade the Pope not to have a meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., and Spellman concurred.
Project Monarch operative: Gerald Ford was the only member of the congressional investigative committee to say that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of John Kennedy (and the only one in the committee to make president: and he made it by appointment).
The theme here is unification, the same kind of unification that, Roman Catholic Ngo Dihn Diem so ruthlessly administered in South Vietnam, under the protection of the C.I.A. (and US Army "advisors") using civilian internment camps probably similar to those built by Trudeau (Jesuit) of Canada, see "Civilian Internment Camps", Toronto Sun, 4 March 1982.
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 Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Buddhist monks set themselves on fire in Saigon to protest repression by U.S.- backed government of Ngo Dinh Diem.
On October 31, 1968, President Johnson ordered a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hoped for fruitful peace negotiations.
On November 2, 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.
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 Millennium Moments --   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1959, game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted to a House subcommittee that he’d been given questions and answers in advance when he appeared on the NBC TV program “21.”
In 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.
In 1994, a jury in Pensacola, Fla., convicted Paul Hill of murder for the shotgun slayings of an abortion provider and his bodyguard; Hill was sentenced to death.
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 Dictators Supported by the U.S. Government
Ngo Dinh Diem oppressed the Vietnamese people so badly that many of them turned to the
his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, and Nhu's wife, Madame Nhu.
effort to keep Diem in power, the US tried to persuade him to make political reforms.
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 CNN Interactive - Almanac - November 2, 1999
In 1960, in London, the D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover was found not to be obscene.
In 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated.
In 1983, U.S. president Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
www.cnn.com /almanac/9911/02   (317 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On this day in 1959, game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted to a House subcommittee that he'd been given questions and answers in advance when he appeared on the NBC TV program "Twenty-One."
On this day in 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.
On this day in 1976, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter became the first candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be elected president as he defeated incumbent Gerald R. Ford.
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 November 2 - UncleWoody.org - What happened on the day I was born?
Daiwa Bank Ltd. is prohibited from further Wall Street trading in the US for allegedly failing to report $1.1 billion in trading losses.
Ngo Dihn Diem, president of South Vietnam, is assassinated during a military coup.
US voters re-elect President Harry Truman over his Republican opponent, Thomas
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 Khaleej Times Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
And there are others whose punishments, unlike Saddam's, do not fit the crimes they were responsible for.
Remember General Augusto Pinochet of Chile, Ngo Dihn Diem of Vietnam, Pol Pot of Cambodia whose guerrilla army, the hated Khmer Rouge, defeated Lon Nol, and took power in April, 1975.
Once in power, Pol Pot emptied the cities, forcing the people into the countryside.
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 Diem and Vietnam free essays
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 All words on 1963
June 5 - Profumo Affair - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal
June 11 – Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc publicly sets himself on fire in Saigon, Vietnam, to protest against Ngo Dinh Diem's policies
November 1 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (b.
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Vietnam, to protest against Ngo Dinh Diem's policies
Constantine Karamanlis resigns in protest of king's visit to Britain
October 9 - In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
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