Đặng Sỹ

Deceased Person

1929 – 2006

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Who was Đặng Sỹ?

Major Matthew Sy Dang, was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He acquired a degree of infamy for ordering his soldiers to open fire on a crowd of Buddhists demonstrating against a ban on the Buddhist flag, leading to the Huế Vesak shootings in which nine people died. This sparked the Buddhist crisis and downfall of Ngô Đình Diệm.

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Born
Jul 29, 1929
Died
Nov 11, 2006

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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