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6/28/2025, 4:24:35 AM
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>his soldiers brutalizing unarmed buddhist monks to be more or less the same as their reaction to his soldiers battling for saigon against armed sectarian militias a decade earlier
1. Because both military leaders and intel heads told him the Buddhist protesters were revolutionaries in order to to get the CIA to turn against Diem and finally take him out so they could both govern the country without having to worry about Diem.
2. I find it hilarious that you think 20th century autocrats don't routinely violently purge people who opposed their regime peacefully. Going by your logic you'd be a pro-NK tankie if you heard about what Synghman Rhee's regime did. What Diem's regime did paled in comparison to both what came before (Korea under Rhee) and what came after (Indonesia, Timor, Korea under Chun, El Salvador, and Guatemela) when it comes to atrocities committed by pro-Western Cold War regimes and if anything was one of the less oppressive of these types of governments.