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Buddhist crisis
The Buddhist crisis ((ベトナム語: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.〔Adam Roberts, ‘Buddhism and Politics in South Vietnam’, ''The World Today'', Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, vol. 21, no. 6, June 1965, pp. 240–50 analyses the causes of the Buddhist crisis and its significance as a case of non-violent struggle.〕
The crisis was precipitated by the shootings of nine unarmed civilians on May 8 in the central city of Huế who were protesting a ban of the Buddhist flag. The crisis ended with a coup in November 1963 by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and the arrest and assassination of President Ngô Đình Diệm on November 2, 1963.
==Background==
In South Vietnam, a country where the Buddhist majority was estimated to comprise between 70 and 90 percent of the population in 1963,〔Moyar, pp. 215–216.〕〔Tucker, pp. 49, 291, 293.〕〔Maclear, p. 63.〕 President Ngô Đình Diệm's pro-Catholic policies antagonized many Buddhists. A member of the Catholic minority, his government was biased towards Catholics in public service and military promotions, as well as in the allocation of land, business favors and tax concessions.〔Tucker, p. 291.〕 Diem once told a high-ranking officer, forgetting that he was a Buddhist, "Put your Catholic officers in sensitive places. They can be trusted."〔 Many officers in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) converted to Catholicism in the belief that their career prospects depended on it, and many were refused promotion if they did not do so.〔Gettleman, pp. 280–282.〕 Additionally, the distribution of firearms to village self-defense militias intended to repel Viet Cong guerrillas was done so that weapons were only given to Catholics. Some Catholic priests ran private armies,〔Warner, p. 210.〕 and in some areas forced conversions, looting, shelling and demolition of pagodas occurred.〔Fall, p. 199.〕 Some Buddhist villages converted ''en masse'' to receive aid or avoid being forcibly resettled by Diem's regime.〔Buttinger, p. 993.〕
The Catholic Church was the largest landowner in the country, and the "private" status that was imposed on Buddhism by the French, which required official permission to conduct public activities, was not repealed by Diem.〔Karnow, p. 294.〕 The land owned by the church was exempt from land reform,〔Buttinger, p. 933.〕 and Catholics were also ''de facto'' exempt from the corvée labor that the government obliged all other citizens to perform; public spending was disproportionately distributed to Catholic majority villages. Under Diệm, the Catholic Church enjoyed special exemptions in property acquisition, and in 1959, he dedicated the country to the Virgin Mary.〔Jacobs p. 91.〕 The Vatican flag was regularly flown at major public events in South Vietnam.
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