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...official proclamation, a government broadcast said that "thanks to divine protection, all Cambodia's enemies suffer complete destruction. Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu were killed by bullets. Their friend Sarit, who mistreated Cambodia incessantly, met with sudden death. Moreover, the great boss of these aggressors met the same fate." When the U.S. officially protested these words, Cambodia denied any derogatory intentions toward President Kennedy, but it huffily recalled its ambassador from Washington...
...have Saigon's papers suffered much from official reprisals. In six weeks, only two dailies have been shut down. Their offense: printing a picture of a Viet Nam beach scene in which the bathing beauty, shown with a male companion, was identified as Madame Nhu. Since the picture was five years old and so murky as to defy identification of the subjects, many another Saigon publisher felt that the suspension was only an appropriate resnonse to a palpable attempt at discrediting the madame and her companion, an Indian delegate to the International Control Commission. Both papers resumed publication...
After their coup, South Viet Nam's rebels announced that President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, were killed in an armored car when Nhu scuffled with an army captain over a gun. Hardly anyone believed that story. According to a likelier version, the brothers were taken to Joint General Staff Headquarters; Diem refused to announce his resignation and Nhu started cursing-whereupon one of the generals pulled his gun and shot them. In any case, the new government to this day terms their deaths "accidental suicide...
...finally acquired two such pictures from an unidentified source. In the photographs the brothers hardly look like suicide victims, accidental or otherwise. Both are still wearing the Roman Catholic priests' robes in which they attempted to escape after their regime caved in; their faces are bloodied and bruised, Nhu's hands tied behind his back...
Still a mystery is the whereabouts of the bodies. Fortnight ago, a picture peddler appeared again, this time exhibiting photographs of two coffins, marked Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, on trestles, with an unidentified army officer standing near by. Other prints showed the coffins, decorated with flowers and candles, beside two freshly dug graves, and a European priest in the foreground along with a Vietnamese man and woman said to be Diem relatives. The site was said to be a cemetery within the compound of Joint General Staff Headquarters...