THE GREAT FOOD AT THE TEMPLE relics
The Great Master of Purebred Zen Buddhism was launched on July 15, 1963. On the afternoon of July 16, 1963, over 150 monks and nuns organized demonstrations in front of the US Embassy in Vietnam . They undertakings banners calling for the United States and your country Vietnam Cong Hoa convince government of Ngo Dinh Diem to implement what was signed in the Update Report Match .
As of July 15, 1963, monks at Xa Loi Pagoda , including the leaders of the Movement for the Protection of Buddhist Faith , began a hunger strike . Dawn on 07.17.1963, a parade moderates are derived from the pagoda Giac Minh City, Phan Thanh Gian Street. The delegation at the beginning of the migration was only over 1,000 people and just put up a banner saying : " We went to see ourteacher on a hunger strike to ask for the execution of the Notice." They crossed the police barricades and called the massesto join their marching force. The following banner is posted:
"We were so much cheated"
" Buddhist flag must be the flag of all Buddhists "
"Ask the government to keep the promise promised"
The demonstrators have broken barbed wire fences several times to advance , but the police and secret police forces have been mobilized too far. Fully equipped, they set up the wire fence very solidly and spread out behind the fire truck. Thich Quang Do, who ordered a parade, suggest the masses sat down on the road and retreats Buddhist concept teaching. The delegation at that time only five hundred meters away Giac Minh Temple . After half an hour of reciting the Buddha's name , the crowd quietly heard the monk Quang Do standing up to talk about the movement of national Buddhism . Using the loudspeaker, he spoke slowly about the meaning of the struggle . From the two ends of Phan Thanh Gian Street and adjacent streets such as Nguyen Thien Thuat, the people stood listening. The windows of the floors are opened; The compatriots appeared on the terrace of houses on both sides of the street to hear the teacher lecture . Police forces use nail trumpets obscures his voice, but the pagoda broadcaster Sight quite strong: the voice of the teacher Quang still be heard clearly. At 10:30 the persecution really start. The police and secret police stormed the banner . Monks and nuns who were attacked by guns and clubs in the eyes of the press and international observers . The screams of women and children resound . There are many monks and nuns who are knocked down. Several others were thrown into the police car and driven away. Was suppressed violently , union protesters retreated slowly pagoda Giac Minh City and Temple From Quang alongside. The police followed them to the gate of the temple and set up A barbed wire fence to block the temple. Over 600 monks and Buddhists were isolated in the temple for more than two days and nights like that.
Demonstrations parade
Also on the morning of July 17, 1963 about 400 monks and nuns gathered at the relics . After Buddhist ceremony and silent ceremony at the main temple, they lined up from Ba Huyen Thanh Quang via Le Van Thach to Nguyen Thong, Ngo Thoi Nhiem, Le Van Duyet , and heading to Ben Thanh Market. They crossed some barbed wire and headed for the flower garden of Ben Thanh Market. This parade, thanks personality its surprise, made the police force to deal not keep up in the first step. When these forces are fully mobilize the majority of monks and nuns had to be Ben Thanh Market, nuns put up the banner : "Ask the government implement Joint Communique" Now the police force The fight was surrounded by protesters , under the command of police director Tran Van Tu. Mr. Tran Van Tu asked monks and nuns to bring down Buddhist flags and banners , but nobody obeyed . The monk's representative stood up and talked about the purpose of the event protesters marched. The director of the police station only allowed him to speak for five minutes, "hurry up and let us do the work ." Representatives for the monks and nuns said: "We came here to show the fellow citizens know that: The Update Report Chung has signed over a month now, but the government has not implemented strictly , but also use all kinds of ways to terror , siege, arrests, repression , misrepresent Buddhism map ".
This time, the people in the market have rushed out large, and from the streets masses also pulled to the full. After the speech , the representative asked the police clearance to the monks were paraded to the relics . Mr. Tran Van Tu refused, decided to use the " adaptive measures " to prevent the parade return to the relics he knew would be extremely crowded. While waiting for the release of the police, monks sat down on the ground and began to recite the Buddha . The persecution At first, the police rushed in, catching the monks on the bus. The monks quickly retaliated by wrapping their arms around each other. The situation becomes chaotic .
Seeing the persecution in front of the masses was not good, the police chief changed tactics. He ordered the arrests and personally settled with the marching masters, promising to use police cars carrying all monks and nuns at the relics .
The demonstration has yielded results and many monks and nuns have lost their strength , furthermore the police director has taken the honor of promising to bring monks and nuns to Xa Loi Pagoda , the willing representative. to give ni to the car. But these cars, when approaching the intersection of General Phuong, instead of running to the relics of the relics , turned to the Orient . I found myself cheated, monks ni banged the car door. The front seat grabbed the brake pedal, and drove the car into the curb. Many car doors open when the car is running. So the police cars stopped. All monks and nuns gathered together into a block between the highway. The police used barbed wire to cover them. The two police officers approached the monks , confessing to the director of the police department, promising this would actually give rise to the relics . Afraid of being ripped again, monks and nuns would not consent , only to be free to walk to the relics.. They sat down to demand the release of the police force. But the police did not disperse. The repression was fierce, fierce several times before: monks and nuns were beaten and thrown into the car as animals. Masses here are not crowded like in Ben Thanh market and the press are not present, so the monks and nuns were assaulted brutally: have you been woven into the places where major insurance , can have a throttle, there He was punched in the dust bag.
INCREASE YOUR TIME
Police trucks loaded up from the city rushed to Hoa Nghiem Temple in An Duong Do , a large cemetery located in the field of Phu Lam. Here the police were on duty and the paper was stretched barbed fence into four sides. All monks and nuns are isolated here. In the afternoon, the police force was strengthened .
At about midnight, police armed with guns broke into the monk's office to question , investigate , and inquire who urged them to protest . The Cambodians of Cambodian origin are questioned more than all.
The following day, 07.18.1963, public officials arrested monks went curriculum vitae, fingerprint and photograph: they said that the procedure normally have to do before you monks are paid free , and promised that on July 19, 1963 they would invite the Interfaces Commission to return monks and nuns to the relics .
Noon 19.7.1963, suddenly many police cars were brought to the police and asked to bring monks and nuns to relics , no location of the Joint Commission, monks refused to board the car, resolute wait for orders.
On the morning of July 20, 1963, suddenly all the barbed wire fences and security forces blocking the An Duong Desert had disappeared, and Ngo Trong Hieu, the civic affairs minister and Tran Van Tu, police director appeared. with a press conference in Vietnam and abroad. In front of journalists and photographers, Tran Van Tu explained that the reason why monks and nuns were detained here because they protest violence and any lawful and had assaulted employees of force . Master Chanh Lac representative for the monks and nuns stood up to explain to the press about the purpose and stance struggle nonviolence of Buddhist , rectification slanderous remarks of the director Police, then answered fluently each question both reporters posing.
After that, monks decided according to delegation press Saigon. The delegation to Phu Lam, after leaving the press away, a team of police fight to stop all monks and nuns . Thich Chanh Lac proposal plenary sitting down pavement Buddhist concept . While you represent nuns dialogue with the police when a delegation of the Joint Commission Delegation by the Zen monk Thien Minh instructions, to keep up. As a result , the monks were transported to the relics by car. There was a police caravan.
At 12:15, the convoy arrived at the entrance of the relic of the relics . Now they are Zen purity, the Zen other Union Commission Delegation and the masses on duty available here welcome. Zen Buddhist monk Tam Chau , who was touched by the sacrifices and sufferings of monks and nuns during the past four days and four nights, stood up and bowed to the masses . This gesturehas touched everyone .
Even the nuns seriously wounded were immediately taken into care. After the review , the number of monks and nuns arrested or disappeared was nearly five dozen (183)
Newspapers and international television stations broadcast the full coverage of these demonstrations in Saigon. Masses in domestic monitoring of the BBC, VOA, know very well what happened in Saigon and the public uproar over the world .
Opinion INTERNATIONAL concussion
At the same time, all the leaders in the Interagency Commission continued the hunger strike at the relics .
The government of Ngo Dinh Diem knows what is happening in the international public opinion , especially American opinion . The signing author as David Halberstam of the New York Times wrote in this newspaper a lot of all adverse to the Saigon regime. The reporter said the Ngo Dinh Diem government was hated by the people , and that the issue of overthrowing the Diem government was only a matter of time . United States Senator Wayne L. Morse announced on July 19, 1963 that he did not agree to give the United States a further dollar for the Ngo Dinh Diem administration. News of US journalists by police assault the press in the United simplicity and New York posted. Washington Times newspaper (Washingtin Post) has been writing a comment below dated 19.6.1963: "The dispute is no longer a movement with personality local anymore. Since Diem's regime is so intimately connected to the United States, the risk of Buddhists throughout Asia will have the impression that the United States is tolerant of religious discrimination anyway . It is a false feeling but nonetheless an ally of a tyrannical and oppressive regime So the United States is affected . "
President Ngo Dinh Diem sees his risk. On 18 July 1963 he spoke on Saigon radio. He read the messages to placate the situation . The message is repeated many times on the radio. He said:
"To clear the policy of the government determined to implement proper and effective Communication joint statement and to dispel any doubts or intentional misrepresentation split, pursuant to the proposal of the Board of the Ministry, I have just approved :
1. Directive N ° 358 of 9 July 1963 on the flagging of the Buddhist flag . This formula applies exclusively to the Buddhist Congregation which will apply to any discipline which voluntarily recognizes Buddhism .
2. Commission Directive ministries cooperate closely with the delegation of Buddhism to the study investigators solve or records or on the spot if necessary complaints relating to the implementation details joint statement .
(3) Instruct the main military people in each of their fields, both in speech and in their work , to actively contribute to the implementation of the Joint Communiqué.
I hope that fellow citizens recognize the will reconcile extreme government in matters Buddhist and I ask fellow citizens will henceforth objective judgment to have the attitude of action, do not let anyone do to prevent to stop the progress of the new race in the mission to kill the Republic. "
Call to "recognize the will reconcile extreme government" referred to in the temple relics , Giac Minh City , An Quang Saigon and many other temples around the territory was being blockaded and 300 position monks and nuns are besieged in An Duong District , and more than four hundred monks and nuns are scattered throughout the country in detention . Bright day 07.19.1963, Zen European Center sent a text message for President Diem to answer his summons. In the letter the Zen master noted This summons of the president and ask him expedited release all those detained by the authorities from the date of 08.05.1963, the compensation for the victims of that massacre. At the same time he also informed that the temple relics , An Quang and Giac Minh City , after being cleared in about half an hour on the morning of 05/08/1963, which the police forces sealed off again . He concludes : "The above issues are resolved and we can cooperate with the Inter-Ministerial Committee Study , consider other issues so that the mediation is perfectly fine .
The Standing Committee of the Focal Point, therefore, will not agree to cooperate with the government to establish a Joint Committee as long as the most basic of the Common Notice is not implemented. Correspondence exchanged between the Joint Commission and Joint Commission Delegation of the Ministry in the period from 19/07/1963 to 07/30/1963 days largely to address the issue of this. To the Buddhist , Delegation of the Joint Committee to continue publication of the document violated Info Fox Match The disappearance of the monks, the assassinations and the tragedy of the Buddhists , the propaganda of false propaganda against the struggle for five aspirations, etc. (184).
INFORMATION SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES COMMISSION
The capital press is in the hands of the government so the Interagency Commission must establish a special communication system . The Zen monk Quang and Duc Nghiep those in charge of contacts with journalists internationally and consulates abroad in Saigon: whenever information is required notices , the location using the phone, or the temple, or the houses around the pagoda. Many times, the news is spread on small pieces of paper and is being televised to the press from places far away from the temple. Along with all the proficiency other languages, they translated foreign articles have refer to the struggle for dissemination . They record news broadcasts from foreign radio stations and copy them into newsletters. Zen master Chau Toan dispatched some staff members to publish these newsletters on a stencil. Materials were transferred to other centers in the capital for reprinting and dissemination . In Hue and the center of struggle as the Quang Tri, Quang Nam, Nha Trang, Dalat, Binh Long, Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan, Gia Dinh etc ... the way information and fighting are also adapted this method.
During the struggle , every day the masses to the temple are crowded to worship Buddha . Hold a hunger strike and support the Inter-Commission. The Zen monk Giac Duc and Ho Giac charge of preaching in the gatherings and hunger strikes this. They explain to the masses clarify the stance of Buddhism , the attitude of the government, to denounce these actions violate Info Fox Match and talking about public opinion International for the struggle to enforce the Year of the Wish. They are both young and eloquent masters .
THE PRIME PERIOD OF GOVERNMENT
In the state apparatus, even in the security forces , the secret police had many people on the defensive . The Intergovernmental Commission is always informed in advance of the government's repressive measures . The rally of more than 100 Wounded Warriors before pagoda relics dated 23.07.1963 held by the government to oppose the movement of Buddhism was also to know the Joint Commission and the teacher European Center sent a letter to the administration to protested on July 22, 1963. In a letter dated July 22, 1963, the Zen master He also informed the authorities that Ngo Trong Hieu, the civic affairs minister, who had 300 shoemakers scuffed up to raise money and set a flag for the South Vietnamese Liberation Front , was holding a demonstration. other orphans and widows and soldiers, and a rally others to the beggars and those who have leprosy, inciting these people to the temple relics to provocations and to police a pretext to the temple ( 185).
The Interim Commission printed a letter to the people who claimed to be wounded soldiers to protest at the relics of Xa Loi on July 23, 1963. This letter was very gentle, thoroughly explaining the struggle. of Buddhism , recognized the contributions and sacrifices of disabled veterans to work protecting the south and called Wounded Warriors participate in the fight demanded civil rights and equality of religion (186).
On July 23, 1963, the General Director of Information convened a press conference, saying that Lieutenant Colonel Tran Thanh Chieu, the Central Inspector of the National Guard and the author of the revolt of the warship from office and fined 40 days days in oranges . Soon, the teacher pure wrote to President Diem asked for leniency for Lieutenant Colonel Zhao, because according to the teacher : "Never officer was inclined himself to do something publicly against the orders of the total systems without a pressure from the outside that "(187).
On the afternoon of July 24, 1963, the Interfacial Commission received a letter from the warlords sent to the relics . The letter expresses the support of the warveterans for the struggles of the Buddhists and complains about the group of people who use the name of the war veterans to do something against the wishes of the wounded. The letter signed by ten representatives Wounded Warriors (188). Dated 08.01.1963 about 300 brothers were automatically disabled veterans gathered at the temple relics , which Buddhist ceremony in the main hall . Their representatives came to the teacher The European Center of Mission and the Joint Commission vows to support the struggle .
Date 07/23/1963, nuns Dieu Hue opening press conference at the temple relics , said she would burn herself to fight discriminatory policy of religious government, Ngo Dinh Diem. Ven. Dieu Hue was the mother of the scholar Buu Hoi, who then served as ambassador to the Ngo Dinh Diem government in many countries of West Africa.
On 30.7.1963, the ceremony (49 days) of Quang Duc masters was solemnlyheld at Xa Loi Pagoda .
Responding to the call of the Inter-Committee, the capital's people rushed to the pagoda from the early funeral, despite the hindrances and threats of the police and police. The crowd was packed inside and outside of the temple. After the prayer for the souls of Zen monk Quang Duc , a copy of the Declaration of the Joint Commission Delegation is common , urged compatriots to promote the fight nonviolence .
On June 1, 1963, Zen Master Khen sent a message to President John F. Kennedy, protesting that US ambassador Frederic Nolting had told the UPI news agency that there was no religious discrimination and mistreatment of the Buddha. Catholic map in Vietnam .
NGUYEN NGUYEN HUONG
Dated 08.04.1963, while monks , nuns and devotees of Buddhism Binh Thuan is still hunger in Hoi Quan Pagoda Provincial Assembly, the teacher Nguyen Huong fire burned himself alone at the station just before the provincial road warriors Binh Thuan (Phan Thiet ).
Nguyen Huong, a monk named Huynh Van Le, was born in 1940 in Long An village, Tuy Phong district, Binh Thuan province. He left home at the age of 18, studying with Venerable Master Bich Tich Bui. At 20, he received the university world , and have direct effect Duc Phong . He has been staying at Buu Tang Pagoda in Binh Thuan since September 1962. He died alone , no one knows. Prior to executing a vow he left a letter to Zen Master Purebred, another letter sent to the temple of Buu Tang and another letter sent to him .. The contents of this letter is the will of him to contribute to the effort to struggle for ending the state of repression of Buddhism map. In a letter to his parents , he applied for two diligent Buddhist concept and do not blame anything to your guru he is the teacher Vien Tri, because the teacher does not know anything about the voluntary self- immolation of him (189).
Zen Master Nguyen Huong, brand name Phong , although only 23 years old, but has a relatively stable strength . He sat in the red fire until he fell . Firefighters gathered around the station. A unit of the military were immediately mobilized to disperse the masses and carry his body to the hospital Phan Thiet. The villagers pulled to the hospital, but the law enforcement officers rushed to blockade the hospital.
However, before the hospital was blocked , about 20 monks and nuns as well as young Buddhist has reached the hospital to stay on the body of Zen Master Nguyen Huong. After the hospital was sealed off , the men could no longer get out. The crowd is getting to the hospital more and more. Monks and Buddhists sit down in front of the hospital gate and began to chant requiem for the souls of new people dead. Authorities for the radio throughout the city, reportedly "a tired youth love suicide at radio station ". Police forces do not disperse the masses . Forever until midnight, according to the request of the teacher Quang The, Minh Thuan and peace of mind , new people have to leave. The position monks and stick teenager Buddhists in hospitals certain not to leave the hospital, preliminary government moved the bodies of the teacher . Some monks and Buddhists also insisted on sitting outside the hospital. All night they alternately chanting prayers .
At the Hoi Phuc Temple, the masses also practiced. The loudspeaker was picked up by the chieftain of the temple and the Chau Duc teacher presented the incident that had taken place, rectifying what the government had announced in the city. He said people are "Venerable Nguyen Huong, a monk of the Church Sangha Binh Thuan has self-immolation to protest the government of intolerance truly implement Joint Communique".
The police immediately came to surround the pagoda. On the morning of August 5, 1963, police and civil servants came to suppress , arrested monks and nuns in the madroom at the hospital and carried the remains of the monk Nguyen Huong.
In Saigon, the Nguyen Huong Zen master committed suicide at the Inter-Commission on August 5, 1963. Super meditation for teachers is scheduled to be held on August 11, 1963, across the country. Pagoda relics that day, Requiem is Doan Sinh Vien Buddhist Tzu, Youth Protection Buddhism and Federation of Students Buddhists mobilize and organize. The number of participants is up to twenty thousand people.
At the ceremony , the number of monks and nuns is very large. The monks of Cambodia originated in groups, also dressed as surrogates as they are the Nam Mon monks of Vietnamese origin. The monks and nuns of all the Buddhist schools in Saigon, Gia Dinh and Thu Duc are present.
Zen Master Kham Khiet stood out as the master . Requiem celebration finished, the testament of the teacher Nguyen Huong was brought proclaimed. In the public , a banner forest is erected. In these banners , there is a special banner of content : "President Ngo Dinh Diem to hold the responsibility , do not let anyone manipulate power, slander, oppressed Buddhism."
Thich Giac Duc stood before the microphone to explain the banner of this. He mentioned the heavy pressure of Ngo Dinh Nhu, Ngo Dinh Can and Tran Thi Le Xuan for President Ngo Dinh Diem. He stressed to the splendor of his rights and Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu Ngo Dinh Nhu, analyze the plot sabotage organized Buddhism and the trouble the breach Notice joint statement . The crowd cheered each other.
Also on August 5, 1963, Zen Master Jingzhen sent a letter to Ngô Đình Di0m, noting the president of the rumors related to a fake coup attempting to force him to immediately repress Buddhism .
PLAN "WATER"
On August 6, 1963, the Interagency Commission was briefed on a government plan to eradicate the Buddhist movement , called the "flood plan." This plan aims to differentiate and isolate the Buddhist power , to block the economy, to stop all of their information and to shame every leader of the movement by pretending to be " "to be able to prosecute them before the law (190). In a letter to President Diem on August 7, 1963, Zen Master Khiet Khit informed the president of the plan. This, and noted he once again about the plot sinister of those who trusted the most by him.
On August 12, 1963, a female student of Mai Tuyet An came to Xa Loi Pagoda to cut her left hand to warn the authorities, she cut a lot of slices but her hands did not break up. The monks heard the news came running to find her car carrying the hospital. Before cutting her hands, the girl wrote three letters, one for Buddhist monks and nuns , one for President Diem and one for Ms. Ngo Dinh Nhu.
INTELLIGENT CLEANING
On 13.8.1963 another human torch was lit at Phuoc Duyen Pagoda in Huong Tra District, Thua Thien Province . Who self-immolation is a school rose 18, named Thanh Tue.
Zen master Thanh Tue's name is Bui Huy Chuong, born in 1945 in Quang Tri. He left home in 1960 to study with the teacher bowed at Phuoc Duyen. 12/08/1963 night he wrote four letters to leave, one for President Diem, one for increasing followers of Buddhism , a physician he and parishioners, and one for families . His writing is very neat and short . In his letter to President Diem he demanded an end to the persecution and oppression of Buddhists and the release of those detained. hold. He said that it was Madame Nhu's humiliation and hardship that would bring the government down and bring the Buddhists to success . Two hours late at 13.8.1963, at the distant Phuoc Duyen Pagoda, while his master was away, he went outside the Tam Quan Pagoda and put fire on self-immolation . When the police force or news , the masses in the commune have to surround the temple gate crying. Police did not allow the young students to go to Tu Dam Pagoda. The incidents took place and during a crackdown of 25 people in the village were injuredof whom 5 had to go to hospital. Police transported the corpse meditation Thanh Hue away.
Dated 08.13.1963, the Board of the Ministry of the government press conference in Hall Dien Hong, shed responsibility for the Joint Commission Delegation did not collaborate to establish a Joint Committee for the purpose of implementation of Communication Advertising Match . The next day, the Board Contact Gender opening press conference at the temple relics , and in front ofthe world press domestic and international, Zen monk Thien Minh has explained the reasons that the Joint Commission Delegation has yet to attend established Joint Committee. The teacher said that the reason Info Fox Match not enforcement is only because the government refuses to enforce . According to him, details joint statement is just a measure of the government to get rid of the day's funeral Zen monk Quang Duc . No clause in the Joint Communiqué has been executed . He told the press in domestic, including The Times of Vietnam, only the right to publish views of the government and the government is always carried out their bits. He called for a blockade temples, release all those arrested hold and terminate all acts of repression , terrorism, defamation distorted . At the same time he also said mass old Zen master pure urged monks , nuns and devotees stopped act of self-immolation .
OPTICAL DISCHARGES
In Hue on 08/15/1963, about a thousand students and students held demonstrations in the city to protest for repression before Phuoc Duyen and government forces returned the remains Zen Thanh Tue temple. At about eight-thirty that day, a nun doused with gasoline and fire in Ninh Hoa district near Nha Trang town.
Professor Ni Dieu Quang lay name was Ngo Thi Thu, born in 1936 in the village of Phu Cat province of Thua Thien . She was 21 years old, studying with nun Dieu Hoa at Van Thanh Nunnery . Cell pen all her leave as well as the bodies of nuns Dieu Quang immediately arrested by the police took away disappeared. No one knows the contents of the letters nun leave. Resentment on the attitude of the public, a large march of protest was held in the town of Nha Trang to protest . The demonstrators This was suppressed so brutally . More than 200 people were arrested and nearly 30 people were injured. Hoi An and Hai Duc Buddhist temples were blocked and electricity was cut off for three days and nights. About 300 monks and lay people close monks were isolated in two places.
Since there are many people injured in the temple and for medicines and means running no other treatment should be some increase map and believers dose break the blockade around the temple to run out for help after three days of blockade . They were severely suppressed . Four monks, one nun and three laymen were wounded . Two other monks were thrown into the lake. A lot of young people are arrested .
COMMON GENERAL ORDER IN HUE
Dated 08.16.1963 in Hue, all schools, markets, factories and public and private facilities are unanimously general strike in response to calls by world leaders of Buddhism . Town government issued a curfew and martial law comprehensively. All the great temples were blocked , thousands of people isolated in the Linh Quang , Tu Dam and the Noble Temple .
TYPICAL EXTRACTION
On that day, in order to save his life , Zen Master Yao set fire on himself at Tu Dam Temple, leaving three letters, one for the Zen Master , one for his disciples and one for President Diem.
Zen master Yao was seventy-one years old. He was born in An Truyen village in Phu Vang district, Thua Thien district . He was thirty-eight years old, studying with Zen Master Tang at Tuong Van Pagoda . He died contemporary world in 1952 and then up a net loss in Chau Lam Pagoda to retreat. He was taught at the Tay Thien and Linh Quang pagodas . He set himself on fire at four in the morning of August 16, 1963.
Government afraid to rob the flesh of the teacher as the previous times, almost five thousand people were on duty day and night at Tu Dam Pagoda to protect and ready to prevent police.
The same day that day, the Joint Commission to prune the temple relics after the news, sent the prospectus to denounce the cruelty of the regime before the public national and world . Letter from the teacher pure sent President Diem said that evening to the abuse of authority for the Buddhists , "an unprecedented abuse in this country." He wrote: "We have come to the country not thinking of the call for humanity and justice ; We just want how many crimes of a people view like garbage grass done right to us have a dip die rather than live miserably and also let the truth of the Republic Recognized by the Chancellor built exposed in front of compatriots and the world "(191)
In Huế, Rev. Cao Van Luan, the president of Hue University, was dismissed because he spoke directly in the face of government leaders: "The infidels . The Buddhist side has the righteousness. "
TEACHER OF UNIVERSITY OF RESIGNATION
Officials Institute of the University of Hue including Mr. Le Khac Quyen (Dean of Medicine), Bui Tuong Luan (Dean of the Law Faculty), Ton Almond (Dean of Science), Nguyen Van Tuong (Director of Studies University learning Pedagogy), Le Tuyen (Director of Studies and Literature Department ) and thirty-teaching staff of the university this out through statements from officials. At the same time the entire faculty and the Institute of Chinese Studies statement Hue protested the government and declared to abandon their positions.
Gender is present in the struggle . Injustice cooperation became comprehensive in Hue, movement uncooperative start switch to Saigon and the provinces.
In Hue, every social machine is numb. In addition to police forces, special forces, police and secret services, no one was under government orders. The government mistook a situation so dangerous that it had to transport from Saigon to Hue before 16.8.1963 many police units fighting and special forces . On the way there is no one left.
In Saigon on 08.16.1963, the Joint Committee must send a telegram newspapers for general secretary of the United Nations and organizations of Buddhism you like Thailand, Japan , Korea , Singapore, Sri Lanka , Burma, Taiwan and India. Telegram comes to the situation tragic of Buddhism in Vietnam and called emergency : "We sent to World Freedom , organizations Buddhist foreign words call for earnest and sincere gratitude to all Intervention , in the name of human rights , to end an abuse has become barbaric. "
Meanwhile the Republican army was given a 100% camping order. The streets are full of armed police. Barbed wire is pile up on the pavement around the pagoda.
Requiem at the temple relics
On August 17, 1963, the order was made to pray for all Buddhist monks who were devoted to the protection of Buddhism spread by the Interfac Society . Over thirty thousand people came to the relics in the morning of 18.8.1963. After the speech was read. The Saigon Buddhist Students Association urged the public to attend a hunger strike in place. About ten thousand people sit down. Mainstay of the hunger strike is the youth of the unions Sinh Vien Buddhist Tzu, Student Buddhists and Youth Protection Buddhism . A lot of people do not hunger also remain supported .
During this day, the capital masses exchanged each other, from class to class, to the temple to support the hunger strike . Fighting Police on duty around the area to prevent hunger strike turned into a protest march. Zen Master Giac Duc on the microphones to talk with the mass .
Using the reasoning sharp, he expounded the character inhuman regime. He further criticized Ngo Dinh Nhu for her insults on Buddhism (192). Hated the regime, the public cheered him once. He went to the forum several times a day and kept the hunger strike always flexible .
From the intersection of Ba Huyen Thanh Quan and Ngo Thoi Nhiem street to Phan Thanh Gian street, the crowd was crowded. The struggle of the masses increasingly intense.
Don fierce END OF GOVERNMENT
Ngo Dinh Diem's government did not step back. Dated 08.21.1963 this administration struck a blow fierce final : all the temples as a basis for the struggle of the Buddhists across the country have been attacked once and all you leaders of the struggle , monks and laymen , have been thrown into a dungeon.
The Buddhist Conservation Union Commission at the relics was informed about the strike at 5 pm on August 20, 1963. A meeting narrowing of the Joint Committee must be held soon to discuss the plan to deal with this attack that you leaders of Buddhism for the last card of the regime. After the Buddha's ceremony at 8:30 pm, the Buddhists who came to the relics at Xa Loi Pagoda were asked to leave before nine hours instead of leaving before eleven o'clock as usual. About At ten o'clock, the temple scene was quiet again . The temple and the halls are closed carefully. The light outside the courtyard is bright but not off like every day. Subcommittees of the Inter-Commission remain silent . Some young men rose to watch the gate after the gate. At fifteen minutes after midnight, the Joint Committee must receive a further message by telephone by a person not introduced themselves believe that the temple relics about to be attacked, and you led Buddhism will arrest toad. All monks and nuns in the temple quietly recite the Buddha to wait. Just thirty minutes after midnight, a siren squealed to the outside and police cars poured around the pagoda. About 200 people from the Special Forces attack the temple. The phone and the wires are cut off. The location leader 's senior Buddhist this time showed up the hall , surrounded by monks and nuns. Some young people in the town rise the stairs to prevent them aggressive forward who infringe on the steps elder of them. The smashing has started. The altar of Quang Duc monk was overthrown, the doors and the tower destroyed. Some monks beat the drum and rang the bell signaling the risk level for residents in the neighborhood. Many others tap on anything that can make sounds to contribute to the signal . After the destruction is completed , the attackers began to climb the upper. At this point, the young men were up on chairs and tables full of stairs that they did not move forward. The attackers tossed the grenade. Smoke was spicy, the monks coughing, nasal tears flowing. They wet their faces with a wet cloth and continue to throw tables and chairs down to stop the stairs. Young people who have been around for nearly an hour and a half are exhausted . Many fall out unconscious. Grenades thrown up Too much electricity left no air to breathe. Their pants scorched. The attackers went to the main hall , using guns and bayonets to put all the monks in a corner. They handcuffed each person and led to the front terrace. Those who resist are beaten with no hands . Those who did not walk fast were slapped on their back. Many monks and nuns her face bruised, blood poured wet shirt.
Meanwhile, some of the attackers went to other rooms in the temple. They broke down a locked room on the monks and found nearly ten position meditation are static coordinates . The Elder Master Yin Khiet was among these people. He was the offensive shoves his stomach and suffered a wound in the left eye.
While the suppression was taking place on the summit, some of the monks below tried to climb the wall behind the relics to escape outside. Four of them were shot down at the foot of the wall. The two climb escaped into the territory of the agency USOM (193) of the United States and seeking asylum here.
Two hundred and fifty monks were arrested . Those attacks were ordered to escort the Zen purity, European Center , Thien Minh, Quang Do, Giac Duc and mandarin other key in the Joint Commission Delegation ahead . The other monks in turn take the car. Five large cams loaded with monks and nuns , the wounded , the unconscious, left the relics . The attack ended at 2:15 am on August 21, 1963.
Xa Loi Pagoda was destroyed. Buddha Shakyamuni in the Hall was also infringing . Attackers have hooked Buddha statues to capture two diamonds in their eyes.
While the relics in Saigon were attacked, in the whole territory of Vietnam large temples as the basis for the struggle of Buddhism were attacked most of the series . The attack on Tu Dam Temple in Hue met with the resistance of about five thousand Buddhist monks in the temple, which lasted from one hour until eight in the morning. Attack forces are two and a half thousand, all in Special Forces . Dieu De Pagoda , Linh Quang , An Quang , Giac Minh , Tu Quang , Bao Quoc and Buddhist temples. In the water were beaten the same day an hour, everywhere, the monks were beaten and tied before the lead. The number of monks and lay people nationwide were arrested locked up that night, according to the document of the government's 1400 position, but can be much higher. Document secret Pentagon Radio (194) on the war in Vietnam also spoke to 1,400're arrested that night.
According to the book of The Champion Of The Vietnam Buddhist of Torch Tue, apart from the monks and nuns and lay leaders of the struggle began on the night of 08.20.1963, the government gave an additional riders caught two thousand others at home theirs that night and the next days . Doctor Le Khac Quyen, Hue Medicine dean and poet Vu Hoang Chuong author posts Fire Compassion also arrested detained on this occasion. Among those arrested later, there are many professors and lawyers and students especially in Saigon and Hue. All staff members of the Executive Committee of Saigon Buddhist Association and Hue were also arrested in their home.
Early morning 21.8.1963 throughout the territory of Vietnam Cong Hoa, martial law edict was stuck in the city. Public car bombs ran across the streets and villages to spread the message that "the government has destroyed the reactionaries." Government leaflets and flyers filled the road.
Temples in the country are deserted and deserted to the brain . A heavy and mournful silence envelops the lives of the people. All the leaders of Buddhism were arrested . Waves caused by movement of Buddhist cause formation as no longer available. But the waves began to revolt in people's hearts . Great waves in the ocean are no longer prevented and there is no way to stop them. On the night of August 20, 1963 the administration of President Diem chose for himself Absolutely .AN ABBESS=THICH TAM DUYEN.( BUDDHIST NUN).NEW ZEALAND.AMITABHA PURELAND TEMPLE.A BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA PURELAND MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.29/10/2018.
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