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...Three other Ngo brothers: Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc is in Rome; former Ambassador Ngo Dinh Luyen was last reported job hunting in London; Ngo Dinh Khoi was killed by the Communists a few years after World...
...control of the country?the Japanese, the French and Ho Chi Minh's Communists, although they all sought his cooperation. At war's end, Ho's agents arrested Diem and hauled him off to the mountains of the north. For good measure, they shot Diem's older brother, Khoi, a provincial chief who had fought the Reds. Months later, Ho personally summoned Diem, demanded that he take a post in the new national government that Ho had set up in defiance of the returning French colonial administration. "Why did you kill my brother?" asked Diem. "It was a mistake," replied...
...general slaughter in central Annam following Emperor Bao Dai's surrender to the Communists back in 1945, Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Khoi and his eldest son were dragged out of their home and whisked away in a green Citroen to be shot near the village of Co Bi in the high, jagged mountains of the Chaine Annamatique. "I remember my brother Khoi," says Diem, who fled into hiding at the time. "He was the brightest son of our family of twelve, a tall, handsome man. The welfare of the people was his life's work...
...nine years after Khoi's murder, the village of Co Bi remained under Communist control, making it impossible for members of the Roman Catholic Ngo family to find their relative's body. When at last the Reds were driven out, the local peasants were too afraid to talk. One ancient sampan man confessed that he had heard the shots and described the area where the murder had taken place. He promptly disappeared. An old ex-Communist surrendered to Diem's forces and admitted his son had taken part in the kidnaping, but the son had fled...
Last month a sick villager of Co Bi went to the scene of the digging and told the authorities: "I have tuberculosis, and I'm going to die. Now I can tell the truth." Showing how the stream of the irrigation ditch into which Khoi's body was dumped had changed its course, he pointed out the real grave. Twelve feet deep, the diggers found the bodies of Khoi and his son, easily identified by a set of gold teeth and a belt buckle...