Word: hu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fairly modest package demanding full equality with the country's Roman Catholics-had never sounded crucial, especially since even Diem's worst enemies could not point to any real anti-Buddhist discrimination or persecution. But when government troops stupidly killed nine Buddhists in a demonstration in Hué (pronounced whey) four months ago, the Buddhists made the clearly political demand that the government accept "responsibility" for the incident. Since then, the Buddhists have developed into a serious opposition movement...
Rope Trick. The crackdown in Saigon was duplicated all over South Viet Nam, and more than 1,000 people were imprisoned. In the Buddhist stronghold of Hué, the approach of government troops was signaled by the beating of temple drums and the clashing of cymbals calling for help. Beating pots and pans to rouse their neighbors, the angry populace poured from homes and raced to defend the city's temples. At Tu Dam Pagoda, monks tried to burn the coffin of a priest who had burned himself alive in the Buddhist suicide protest wave. But government soldiers, firing...
...most macabre week in South Viet Nam's three-month-old religious and political crisis. In Saigon, an 18-year-old girl tried unsuccessfully to cut off her left hand "as a humble offering to Buddha while our religion is in danger." Outside the coastal city of Hué, a 17-year-old novice Buddhist monk wrapped himself in a kerosene-soaked, six-color Buddhist flag, then struck a match. In the village of Ninh-hoa, 200 miles north of Saigon, a young Buddhist nun sat down in a Catholic school playground and set herself on fire. Less than...
...Quarrel Spreads. The three ritualistic suicides brought to five the number of Buddhists who have turned themselves into human torches in further protest against the regime of South Viet Nam's Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem. The government reacted by placing the Buddhist strong holds of Hué and Nhatrang under virtual martial law. Although worried that the burnings might get out of hand, Buddhist leaders defended the suicides as "noble sacrifices," were rounding up secular and military support...
...sink in. At meetings with Buddhist leaders, government officials tentatively acceded to all their demands. The government promised to change existing laws so as to give Buddhism equal standing with Catholicism, granted Buddhists the right to fly their flags at religious festivals. It was the flag restriction at Hué last month that set off demonstrations in which nine Buddhist marchers were gunned down by government troops. Under prodding from Buddhist leaders, the government, which had blamed the Viet Cong for the Hué tragedy, reluctantly agreed to take the blame for the incident. But if the government should renege...