Editing Ngô Đình Diệm (section)

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|Image = Ngo-dinh-diem.jpg
|fullname = Ngô Đình Diệm
|alias = Gioan Baotixita<br>The Winston Churchill of Asia
|origin = Quảng Bình, French Indochina
|occupation = President of South Vietnam (1955 - 1963)<br>Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam (1954 - 1955)
|type of villain = Dictator
|goals = Overthrow [[Bao Dai]] and turn Vietnam into a republic (succeeded)<br>Win the [[Vietnam War]] (failed)<br>Re-unify North and South Vietnam under his banner (failed)<br>Get away with his corrupted officials (failed)
|crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>[[Persecution of Buddhists]]<br>Oppression<br>Extrajudicial [[murder]]<br>[[State terrorism]]<br>[[Authoritarianism]]<br>
|hobby =Killing Communists<br>Repressing Buddhists<br>Flattery towards theological figures of Catholicism, especially the Virgin Mary}}{{Quote|Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!|Ngô Đình Diệm}}'''Ngô Đình Diệm''' (3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–55), and then served as President of South Vietnam from 1955 until he was deposed and assassinated during the 1963 military coup.

Diệm has been a controversial historical figure in the historiography on the [[Vietnam War]]. Some historians have considered him a tool of the United States, while others portrayed him as an avatar of Vietnamese tradition. Some recent studies have portrayed Diệm from a more Vietnamese-centred perspective as a competent leader focused on nation-building and the modernization of South Vietnam.