Xá Lợi Pagoda raids

When

21 Aug 1963

Kind

Military operation

Deaths

100

Coordinates

10.78° N, 106.69° E

Description

series of attacks on Buddhist pagodas in South Vietnam on 21 August 1963 by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces and combat police, ordered by Ngô Đình Nhu

Placed at the coordinates of its Portuguese Wikipedia article.

1963 attacks on Buddhist pagodas in Vietnam

The Xá Lợi Pagoda raids were a series of synchronized attacks on a number of Buddhist pagodas in the major cities of South Vietnam shortly after midnight on 21 August 1963. The raids were executed by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces under Colonel Lê Quang Tung and combat police, both of which took their orders directly from Ngô Đình Nhu, the younger brother of the Catholic president Ngô Đình Diệm.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “吳廷瑈率南越特種部隊查抄舍利寺，導致數百名佛教徒被殺。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page