Ky Crushes Buddhist Movement

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The New York Vietnam News Service published in December a letter from a westerner who had recently returned to Hue, in South Vietnam, the scene of the main Buddhist opposition to Narshal Ky in spring 1966. The letter describes the ruthless suppression of Buddhist resistance by the Saigon government: "I am back in Hue ..... Everything has changed. The Buddhist organisations have been dismantled, worse than by Diem, but more skilfully. The big leaders like Huan, Quyen, Le Tuyen have all been released after three months in prison. But the students and labour union leaders are doing slave labour in state plantations as coolies, have been tortured or have escaped to the NLF. It is said that Tuong - the philosopher you knew - has been killed by the police, but it is impossible to know exactly. Ton That Ky, formerly an anti-comiunist, went over to the NLF zone. The political life is completely paralysed, or gone underground. .«..+. It gets worse every day. The military situation has turned strongly in favour of the Viet Cong. Not even the road to Phu Bai (the airfield) is safe. Only when you are in the field can you imagine the extent to which the American press has become brainwashed."