Nguyen Van Luc

Nguyễn Văn Lực was a Vietnamese Lieutenant Commander and leader of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang (VNQDD, Vietnamese: Vietnamese Nationalist Party), which opposed the Ngo Dinh Diem regime. At one point in 1960, Diem had jailed Luc for one month for engaging in "anti-government activities".^[1] Luc's son was Second Lieutenant Nguyễn Văn Cử, a dissident Vietnam Air Force pilot who along with First Lieutenant Phạm Phú Quốc coordinated the 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing in Saigon on February 27, 1962. Luc had a reputation for brutality and was once reported to have killed a small child in cold blood by a river during a training exercise.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Durable Diem". Time. 1962-03-09. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939947-2,00.html. Retrieved August 31, 2010. 
2. ^ Dommen, Arthur J. (2001). The Indochinese experience of the French and the Americans: nationalism and communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Indiana University Press. p. 548. ISBN 0-253-33854-9. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MauWlUjuWNsC&pg=PA548&dq=Nguyen+Van+Luc&hl=en&ei=7uN8TPC9D8e54AbL3PylBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Nguyen%20Van%20Luc&f=false. 

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