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2. Xá Lợi Pagoda raids - Wikipedia

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   The monks told members of the U.S. press corps in Saigon that the raids were coming, allowing them to be more prepared for the event than the U.S. embassy. [48] In the afternoon before the raids, trucks filled with soldiers headed past the offices of media outlets—from where the journalists saw them—destined for the Ấn Quang Pagoda.

3. Xá Lợi Pagoda - Wikipedia

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   Xá Lợi Pagoda's bell tower is visible from the street. The bell tower of Xá Lợi Pagoda was opened in 1961. The tower stands 32 m, has seven stories, and is the highest bell tower in Vietnam. On the highest level, there is a bell weighing two tonnes, which was cast in the model of the bell of Thiên Mụ Pagoda in Huế. [1]

4. Diệu Đế Temple - Wikipedia

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   Diệu Đế pagoda was one of the three pagodas in Huế to be declared as a "national pagoda" by Emperor Thiệu Trị and was under the direct patronage of the Nguyễn dynasty. The pagoda was built under the reign of Thiệu Trị and is famous for its four low towers, one to either side of the main gate, while the other two flank the ...

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6. Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces - Wikipedia

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   With opposition to Diệm growing, Nhu plotted an attack against Xá Lợi Pagoda, the largest Buddhist centre in Saigon, where the movement was organizing its activities. Tung's Special Forces under Nhu's orders were responsible for the raid on 21 August 1963, in which 1,400 monks were arrested and hundreds were estimated to have been killed ...

7. Names of Ho Chi Minh City - Wikipedia

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   In Chinese, the city is referred to as 西 貢, which is pronounced Sāigung in Cantonese and which 20th-century Vietnamese scholar Vương Hồng Sển proposed to be a transcription of Vietnamese Sài Gòn; [nb 5] [12] 西貢 is also pronounced Tây Cống in Sino-Vietnamese, Sai-kòng in Teochew, Xīgòng in Mandarin, etc. But 西貢 has ...

8. Huế chemical attacks - Wikipedia

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   Deaths and injuries were averted when a Buddhist leader urged the protestors to either retreat to a pagoda and receive medical treatment for the tear gas or to go home. When the entrance to the pagoda was blocked with barbed wire, some protestors simply sat on the ground and continued praying.

9. Wikipedia : Today's featured article/requests/Xá Lợi Pagoda raids

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   The Xá Lợi Pagoda raids were attacks on various Buddhist pagodas in South Vietnam in 1963. The raids were executed by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces and combat police, who both took their orders from Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm. South Vietnam's Buddhist majority were protesting religious bias ...