The #UN failed our peoples in Vietnam - just like they've failed everywhere else because the UN protects capitalist imperial interests over #sovereignty of nations & it's never really had much enforcement teeth.
One of the outcomes of the DMZ was Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime in South Vietnam. Prime Minister of South Vietnam when the DMZ was drawn, in 1955 he proclaimed the country Republic of Vietnam and made himself its President. All with the help of the USA.
The latter’s intelligence had revealed 80 percent of Vietnamese were in favour of Ho Chi Minh. Which translated to a communist regime should General Elections take place. Pro-US, autocratic, Catholic, and anti-Buddhist, Diem ensured the UN-mandated elections never happened.
He also liked the good life. His Independence Palace in #Saigon came with a night-club and private helipad on the top floor, and bunkers deep in the bowels of the earth under the building.
Meanwhile, a stratum of Vietnamese society who were unhappy with Diem’s rule, and were pro-Ho Chi Minh, decided to go underground in 1961. Literally. Known as the #NationalLiberationFront, the guerilla force functioned from subterranean tunnels and jungle cover. They were determined to overthrow South Vietnam’s Diem government and unify Vietnam under #communism. The US called them #VietCong.
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![Wooden stilt house with thatched roof and elevated wooden staircase in a park setting.
Union House at DMZ, seat of the International Control Commission [ICC] comprising India, Canada, and Poland. The ICC was responsible for overseeing the implementation of the 1954 Geneva Accords.](https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/193/429/779/936/994/original/154309f69250a073.jpg)
The Pro-US, autocratic, Catholic, and anti-Buddhist, traitor Diem who stopped the UN-mandated elections was responsible for violent crackdowns on Buddhists & had military attack temples, arrest/beat/kill monks & raid/target supporters of Buddhism.
Our family was targeted multiple times. My patriarch Grandpa owned the largest incense factory in Saigon & donated a lot of supplies to temples. Our family's house/compound was beside factory. Diem’s domestic terrorists raided factory & our family's home multiple times during Diem’s evil regime rule. My Grandpa was beaten several times by his thugs.
Diem’s hatred & targeting of Buddhists led to monks protesting with self immolations in public. The world saw images of some of those desperate protests. Our peoples were trying to get the world to see & understand what was happening in Vietnam. The grave injustices & the atrocious treatment by an evil foreign puppet.
Diem was a capitalist colonial puppet/traitor to Vietnam. He was hated by almost everyone in Vietnam back then.
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