Ngô Đình Diệm: Difference between revisions

Vietnamese people, as well as historical circumstances. The harshest measures were applied, for example, on August 16, 1954, the army of the Republic of Vietnam opened fire to suppress protesters in the city of Go Cong, shooting and killing 8 people and wounding 162 people. Between 1955 and 1960, according to the Republic of Vietnam, 48,250 people were imprisoned, according to another source, about 24,000 people were injured, 80,000 were executed or killed, 275,000 were imprisoned. imprisoned, interrogated with or without torture, and around 500,000 were sent to concentration camps.  

This distorted the social model, reduced the people's trust in the Ngo Dinh Diem government, and pushed the resistance (Viet Minh) into the forest to form a war zone. The Viet Minh responded with protests demanding the release of their officers or organizing vicious exterminations: the murder of government personnel of Ngo Dinh Diem and his collaborators were described as "cruel and spies". To increase intimidation, the South Vietnamese Republic used the guillotine to execute the prisoners. Many murder cases in the Republic of Vietnam were carried out publicly in front of the public and the heads of the prisoners were removed to warn them. The Straits Times (Singapore) of July 24, 1959, published an article reporting on about 1,000 people who saw the massacre in Saigon. The Morning Newspaper (Saigon) of October 15, 1959, wrote: In the absence of the Special Military Tribunal on October 2, Nguyen Van Lep, or Tu Ut Lep, a Viet Cong, was sentenced to death. A week ago, Lep got caught in a police net in a forest in Tay Ninh. The death sentence has been carried out.