Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buddhist nonviolence embraces bugs but not Catholics. Besides the thousands martyred by Buddhists in China, India, Ceylon, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Siam, Burma and Malaya, the extremely conservative martyrology of the church lists eight bishops, 184 priests, 2,370 nuns and 75,380 lay persons beheaded, strangled, starved or dismembered by Vietnamese Buddhists between the Edict of Jan. 6, 1833 and the Peace of June...
...Siege. A week after the government's crackdown, Saigon looked like a city under siege. Heavily armed Special Forces units guarded all key installations. Mobile "anti-suicide" squads patrolled the streets, ready to douse any further Buddhist attempts at self-immolation. An antiaircraft battery was rolled into position outside Saigon's presidential palace; since the Communist Viet Cong have no planes, the government evidently feared an attack from its own force...
Having jailed most Buddhist leaders, the regime moved to silence other vocal opposition-Saigon's seething student population. In the city's crowded marketplace and near Saigon University, rifle-toting combat police in camouflage uniforms arrested all youths of high school and college age in sight and hauled them off to detention camps on the outskirts. Throughout the city, blue-uniformed members of Nhu's Republican Youth Organization made door-to-door calls, warning against public criticism of the government on pain of arrest. Schools were closed until further notice, and scheduled elections for the normally rubberstamp...
Over Radio Saigon, Thich Tinh Khiet, 80, head of the General Buddhist Association, pledged his loyalty to the government, but a newspaper picture cleared by inattentive censors showed the aged monk with a black eye and bruises all over his face. The government explained that he had fallen down. In other respects, censorship was stringent. In outgoing cables from newsmen, the word Catholic was blue-penciled; after passing the censors, one story referred to "Roman President Ngo Dinh Diem...
Determined to dissociate itself from Diem's anti-Buddhist policies-and to keep the army on its side-the U.S. formally absolved South Viet Nam's military leaders of responsibility in Nhu's sacking of the Buddhist temples. In an unusually sharp statement, Washington said that the generals were "not aware of the plans to attack the pagodas, much less the brutal manner in which they were carried out." Saigon bitterly denied the Washington statement, produced a document signed by army leaders to the effect that they had asked "the government to take the action...