Vietnam War, Buddhist crisis and military coup of 1963/Definition

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Vietnam War, Buddhist crisis and military coup of 1963 [r]: During the Vietnam War, a period of increasing domestic instability in the Republic of Viet Nam (South Vietnam), starting with harshly suppressed protests in April 1963 and ending with a military coup in November, during which President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, political advisor Ngo Dinh Nhu, were shot and killed shortly after being captured