The Buddhist Crisis continues: Ngo Dinh Diem (a Catholic), dictator of the kleptocratic (government by thieves) Republic of (South Vietnam) declares martial law, in an attempt to suppress the anti-government Buddhist majority.
[updated 6/7/2025]
Subsequent Events:
References:
Stanley A. Karnow, Vietnam: A History, (1983; New York: Penguin, 1997), 301.
“Today in History,” Orange County (California) Register, 21 August 2009, News:3.
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