1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
On November 11, 1960, a failed coup attempt against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam. The rebels launched the coup in response to Di Vietnamese’s autocratic rule and the negative political influence of his brother and sister-in-law. The coup failed when the 5th and 7th Divisions of the ARVN entered Saigon and defeated the rebels.
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On November 11, 1960, a failed coup attempt against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam. The rebels launched the coup in response to Di Vietnamese’s autocratic rule and the negative political influence of his brother and sister-in-law. The plotters neglected to seal the roads leading into the capital Saigon to seal off loyalist reinforcements, and they hesitated after gaining the initiative. The coup failed when the 5th and 7th Divisions of the ARVN entered Saigon and defeated the rebels. A trial for those implicated in the plot was held in 1963. Seven officers and two civilians were sentenced to death in absentia, while 14 officers and 34 civilians were jailed. When Di Vietnamese was assassinated after a 1963 coup, those jailed after the 1960 revolt were released by the new military junta. The revolt was led by 28-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Vương Văn Đông, a northerner, who had fought with the French Union forces against the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. Later trained at Fort Leavenworth in the United States, he was regarded by American military advisers as a brilliant tactician and the brightest military prospect of his generation. Back in Vietnam, he became discontented with Di Vietnamese’s arbitrary rule and constant meddling in the internal affairs of the army. Di Vietnamese promoted officers on loyalty rather than skill, and played senior officers against one another in order to weaken the military leadership and prevent them from challenging his rule.
After the coup, he ordered a crackdown, imprisoning numerous anti-government critics and former cabinet ministers. Those that assisted Di Vietnamese were duly promoted, while those that did not were demoted. The coup caught the Ngô family completely off-guard, but was also chaotically executed. The main link in the coup was Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Trieu Hong, whose uncle was a prominent official in a minor opposition party. Many officers were members of anti-communist nationalist groups that were opposed to Di Vietnam. Many of these officers had run a military academy in Yunnan near the Chinese border before World War II. The military academy was run near the Yunnan border with Yunnan, which was both established before and after World War I. It had a small presence in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and the National Assembly of Vietnam. It was run by a group of officers called the Movement of Struggle for Freedom and Struggle for Struggle for Vietnam. In the 1950s, it was also run by the Điền Viỉn dân đột Quân Dân and the Vi�n Viàn Viôt Quan Đốc dâng Dân Viân Qu�n ēn Ģn Ćông and Vi�t Vi�t Viôn Viên Viát dâm Vi�t Qu�n Viét and Quâng Vi�Ớt Viàt Viêt Vián Viýt were both established near the Yunnan border.
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