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  2. Huế Phật Đản shootings - Wikipedia

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    The white and gold Vatican flag was regularly flown at major public events in South Vietnam. [17] The Buddhist flag. A rarely enforced 1958 law known as "Decree Number 10" was invoked on 7 May 1963 to prohibit the display of religious flags. This disallowed the flying of Buddhist flags on Phật Đản, the birthday of Gautama Buddha.

  3. Xá Lợi Pagoda raids - Wikipedia

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    In falsely implicating the army in the attacks, Nhu intended to dent the confidence of the Vietnamese populace and the Americans in the senior officers who were plotting against him. Nhu evidently hoped the Buddhist majority and the Americans would blame the army for the raids and become less inclined to support a coup by the generals.

  4. Persecution of Buddhists - Wikipedia

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    According to Human Rights News, "Vietnam continues to systematically imprison and persecute independent Buddhists as well as followers of other religions." [234] The leaders of the Unified Buddhist Congregation of Vietnam, Thích Huyền Quang and Thích Quảng Độ were imprisoned for decades.

  5. Buddhist crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Buddhist crisis (Vietnamese: Biến cố Phật giáo) was a period of political and religious tension in South Vietnam between May and November 1963, characterized by a series of repressive acts by the South Vietnamese government and a campaign of civil resistance, led mainly by Buddhist monks.

  6. The History of Self-Immolation as Political Protest

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    Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc is doused with gasoline during a protest demonstration in Saigon, on June 11, 1963. ... the Vietnam War, and climate change. And Bushnell isn’t the first to self ...

  7. Huế chemical attacks - Wikipedia

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    The Joint Communique was not implemented and the situation continued to deteriorate, particularly after the Ngô family ordered South Vietnam's Special Forces to attack Buddhist pagodas across the country on 21 August. The U.S. condemned the raids, and began to cut aid to the Special Forces, which was effectively a private Ngô family army, in ...

  8. 1963 in the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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    The report said that VC attacks during the month of March had reached an all-time high of 1,861 and that the attacks were larger in scale and dispersed over a larger area than previously. [19]: 233 8 May. South Vietnamese troops opened fire on Buddhist protesters in the city of Huế, killing nine persons and beginning the Buddhist crisis.

  9. Controversial Buddhist monk jailed for insulting Islam - AOL

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    Fan Wang - BBC News. January 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM. Galagodaatte Gnanasara leads a Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist group and is a close ally of ousted former president Rajapaksa [Getty Images]