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Loan was a staunch South Vietnamese nationalist, refusing to give Americans special treatment in his jurisdiction. For example, in December 1966 he rejected the arrest of Saigon mayor Van Van Cua by American military police and insisted that only South Vietnamese authorities could arrest and detain South Vietnamese citizens. He also insisted ...
Saigon Execution. Saigon Execution [a] is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.It depicts South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém [b] [c] near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon.
The son of Lieutenant Colonel Nguyễn Tuân, [1] [2] Huan Nguyen was born in 1958 or 1959 in Huế, South Vietnam.During the Tet Offensive of 1968, Nguyen's parents and six siblings were killed at their Saigon-area home by alleged Viet Cong guerrillas.
You're trying too hard to justify Nguyen Ngoc Loan's action. You must've realised you sounded a lot like some of those conspiracy theorists. If the prisoner was indeed Nguyen Van Lem, he is known to be still alive in the morning of Feb 1st because that morning he led an attack on an ARVN office where he was captured. By noon, he was executed.
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He was born on 24 August 1922, in Long Chau village, Chau Thanh district - Vinh Long (now Vinh Long City, Vinh Long Province) to a wealthy family.From 1950 to 1955, he studied abroad in France and the United Kingdom in which he obtained a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Montpellier, France in 1954, and a master's degree in criminal law from the University of Paris, France in 1964.
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At a meeting held at the Joint General Staff Headquarters at 1700 hours on 18 October 1966, attended by Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Minister of Information and Open Arms Nguyen Bao Tri, Director General of National Police Nguyen Ngoc Loan, and III Corps Commander General Le Nguyen Khang, the decision was reached to accept the resignations ...