Why were so many Vietnamese people apposed to Ngo Dinh Diem? Also what eventually happened to him?

Many Vietnamese opposed Ngo Dinh Diem because he was a dictator. He took control and stifled opposition to his control.





%26quot;Ngo Dinh Diem oppressed the Vietnamese people so badly that many of them turned to the communists for protection from his ruthless rule. Even President Eisenhower admitted that %26quot;had elections been held (as agreed upon in the Geneva Convention in 1954), possibly 80% of the population would have voted for Ho Chi Minh.%26quot; Yet Diem, who once lived in the U.S., had connections in Washington who liked his anti-communism. He founded the Can Lao Party (CLP), a secret police force overseen by his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, and Nhu%26#039;s wife, Madame Nhu. The three (whom one U.S. official called %26quot;three victims of blankwall irrationality%26quot;) were notorious for their ineptitude and cruelty, and, according to Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, the CLP was not their idea; %26quot;it was originally prmoted by the U.S. State Department%26quot; to rid the country of communists.





Diem alienated urban professionals by suppressing all opposition to his regime. He alienated peasants by cancelling their their age old local elections, forcing them off their land, and moving them into %26quot;agrovilles%26quot; surrounded by barbed wire, which even U.S. officials conceded bore a striking resemblance to concentration camps. Ultimately, he angered his own military officers because he promoted on the basis of loyalty (as seen in China%26#039;s failed dictator Chiang Kai-shek too) - not merit. In an effort to keep Diem in power, the U.S. tried to persuade him to make political reforms. He refused, so they persuaded him to make military reforms. But when Diem was finally overthrown and assassinated in 1963, none of his generals rose to defend him. Nor did the U.S., which, after 8 years, had finally realized that Diem wasn%26#039;t popular.%26quot;





He was eventually murdered by his generals in a coup that the CIA and the American government knew about and were responsible for in many ways.