Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MADAME NGO DINH NHU Saigon...
...second episode, about how the French were driven out in 1954, is enhanced by extraordinary footage obtained from the Communist government in Hanoi of the battle for Dien Bien Phu. The third hour, about American support for, and eventual abandonment of, Ngo Dinh Diem, includes horrific scenes of a Buddhist monk setting himself ablaze as a protest against Diem's government, followed by a clip of Diem's sister-in-law Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu sneering at the monk for using "imported gasoline." President John Kennedy is shown saying in September 1963, " "It is their war. The [South...
...find a way of using Buddhism as a rallying point. The only time Indochina's Buddhists were roused to unified action was in the early 1960s, when harassment by Viet Nam's Catholic minority provoked a series of public demonstrations that helped topple Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem...