Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most forgotten United Nations fact-finding missions on record was the seven-member delegation that journeyed to South Viet Nam last October. No sooner did the mission arrive in Saigon to investigate Buddhist claims of religious persecution than the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown. Whether the Buddhists had been victims of the Diem regime, or consummate political agitators-or both-overnight became a neglected question. Though every presumed Buddhist immolation had made front pages for months, editors barely noted or even read the 250-page U.N. report when it was published in December...
First task of the Front, in an area under guerrilla influence, is to indoctrinate the populace. An estimated 4,000 propaganda squads follow Red guerrilla units into villages. The Front even publishes 30 crude newspapers. New fly sheets appear daily, accusing the Americans of everything from introducing whores into Buddhist monasteries to gouging out, frying and eating children's eyeballs. The Front uses harsher methods: more than 10,000 local government officials have been assassinated in the long war, usually by beheading...
...issue building permits for any more. Climaxing a long campaign against the English-speaking government elite and the Tamil-speaking Hindu minority (almost one-quarter of Ceylon's 10.6 million people), Mrs. Bandaranaike ordered that all official business must be conducted in Sinhala, the language of the Buddhist majority...
...least five separate rebellions, ranging from the Kachin tribesmen, who want autonomy, to the Red Flag Communists, who are so fanatical that they think even China's Mao Tse-tung is "too moderate." Burmese businessmen bitterly resent the nationalization of industry; peasants grumble at the collectivization of agriculture; Buddhist monks protest that government expropriation of the rich robs them of endowments. Ne Win's latest enemies are the students who, spurred on by the Communists, last week staged demonstrations and riots all over the country...
Shaven Head. Ne Win's only visible support remains the 50,000-man Burmese army, but there is evidence that even this last bulwark is being undermined; popular Brigadier Aung Gyi, who disagrees with Ne Win's policies, is in exile in a Buddhist monastery where, his head shaven, he spends his time meditating...