Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harmless Americanism." Flitting from TV studios to college campuses, Mme. Nhu argued her cause with passion. Asked if the six Buddhists who burned themselves alive did not indicate strong opposition to the Diem government, she replied eloquently, "How much stronger is the Vietnamese government, for which so many thousands of people are dying obscurely, not for the sake of publicity...
...rarely considered whether Communist dictatorships or leftist "guided democracies" violate human rights. But last week the General Assembly concerned itself with "the violation of human rights" in South Viet Nam, as represented by the Diem government's treatment of the Buddhists. However reprehensible and clumsy the regime's role in the Buddhist crisis may be, many of its accusers were scarcely models of democracy...
Neutralist Ceylon's Ambassador Sir Senerat Gunewardene, neglecting to note that his own government has nationalized Roman Catholic schools and is forcing out Christian missionaries, charged Catholic President Diem with depriving the Buddhists of "life, liberty and security...
...Treason. Most countries with an internal crisis have usually told the U.N. to stay out. By inviting the U.N. in, Diem shrewdly cut short prolonged discussion of his regime on the Assembly floor, while providing himself with an opportunity to tell his side of the story. What his side is, Diem made clear in an address to the National Assembly. Said he: "In the face of an implacable enemy, any factional solidarity which harms national solidarity is an act of treason...
...Even Diem's severest critics in Saigon concede that there was no serious religious persecution until the present troubles began, and that the Buddhist movement has become a political force dedicated to Diem's overthrow. His regime meanwhile freed 125 Buddhists and sympathizers in Hue who were jailed after last August's riots; how many others are still being held is not known...