Ngo Dinh Diem



"Dude!? What the heck was that!? Ngo Dinh Diem?! Oh no! He's the former President of South Vietnam! He's a Vietnamese Roman Catholic who hates the Buddhists! I'm a Buddhist! I don't wanna be his victim! If he does it to me, I'm gonna die! I don't want to die! I have to make sure it's Buddha's revenge against Ngo Dinh Diem. If I don't defeat him soon, he'll be sure that he'll destroy my village!"

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Hater of Buddhists

Ngô Đình Diệm (January 3, 1901-November 2, 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician. A former mandarin of the Nguyễn dynasty, he was named Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam by Head of State Bảo Đại in 1954. In October 1955, after winning a heavily rigged referendum, he deposed Bảo Đại and established the first Republic of Vietnam (RVN), with himself as president. He was a leader of the Catholic element and was opposed by Buddhists. In November 1963, after constant Buddhist protests and non-violent resistance, Diệm was assassinated during a CIA-backed coup d'état, along with his brother, Ngô Đình Nhu, by Nguyễn Văn Nhung, the aide of the leader of the Army of Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), General Dương Văn Minh. Diệm has been a controversial historical figure in historiography on the Vietnam War. Some historians portrayed him as a tool of the U.S. policymakers, some considered him an avatar of Vietnamese tradition. Nevertheless, some recent studies have portrayed Diệm from a more Vietnamese-centred perspective as a competent leader with his own vision on nation building and modernisation of South Vietnam

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, he was revived by Ducangers of South Vietnam that he still become 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam after Lucy Loud had joined the Viet Cong. He would become more evil than Lola Loud,so ARVN and Ducangers will follow him for against Grand Alliance and Rubyism.