Nhu believed the rebel generals would not dare kill one of them while the other was free, in case the surviving brother were to regain power.

Minh then went to Gia Long Palace, and Minh sent an armored personnel carrier to transport Diệm and Nhu, while the others prepared for the ceremonial and televised handover of power to the junta.

During this time, his wife Madame Nhu, herself a Catholic convert from Buddhism and the de facto first lady ( due to Diệm's bachelor life ), inflamed the situation by mockingly applauding the suicides of Thích Quảng Đức and others, referring to them as " barbecues ", while Nhu stated " if the Buddhists want to have another barbecue, I will be glad to supply the gasoline ".

Tung would then announce the formation of a " revolutionary government " consisting of opposition activists who had not consented to being named in the government, while Diệm and Nhu would pretend to be on the run and move to Vũng Tàu.

The family escaped to the cellar unhurt, except for Madame Nhu, who sustained an arm fracture while running for cover.

Nhu was aware of the plots, but remained confident he could outmanoevre them, and began to plot a counter-coup, as well as the assassinations of U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and other American and opposition figures.

The conference turned into chaos, but Nhu achieved his objective of gaining publicity for his brother ; additionally, the other groups had engaged in angry denunciations against Bảo Đại.

The leaders of most of the other parties agreed to participate, but Nhu and his organizations were absent.

Nhu created a web of covert political, security, labor and other organizations, and built a structure of five-man cells to spy on dissidents and promote those loyal to Diệm's regime.

Attempts by Diệm and Nhu to make contact with Đình were blocked by other generals, whose staff claimed that Đình was elsewhere, leading Nhu and Diệm to believe he had been captured.

Nghia gave his account of what occurred during the journey back to the military headquarters: " As we rode back to the Joint General Staff headquarters, Diệm sat silently, but Nhu and the captain began to insult each other.

Three other brothers, Ngô Đình Diệm, Ngô Đình Nhu and Ngô Đình Cẩn, were all politically active, and were all later assassinated during the political upheavals in Vietnam.

Madame Nhu gave a media interview in which she called on government troops to invade the American embassy and capture Thích Trí Quang and some other monks who were staying there, saying that the government must arrest " all key Buddhists ".

He claimed that Diệm and Nhu would not have been killed if they were in the palace, because there were too many people present.

Nhu had trumpeted the program as the solution to South Vietnam's difficulties with Vietcong insurgents, believing that the mass relocation of peasants into fortified villages would isolate the Vietcong from their peasant support base.

Around 1950, Nhu started the forerunner of what would become Cần Lao ( Personalist Labor Party ), forming the power base and control mechanism of the Ngô family.

In 1962, Nhu began work on the ambitious Strategic Hamlet Program, an attempt to build fortified villages that would provide security for rural Vietnamese.

There were persistent reports that Nhu was seeking to usurp real power from Diệm and would attack the Buddhists.

In a media interview, Nhu said that if the Buddhist crisis was not resolved, he would stage a coup, quickly demolish the Xá Lợi pagoda, where the Buddhists were massing to coordinate their activities, and head a new anti-Buddhist government.

Nhu hoped the Buddhist majority and the Americans would blame the army for the raids and become less inclined to support a coup by the generals.

Nhu would then round up opposition figures.

Nhu was reported to have suggested to Diệm that the brothers split up, arguing that this would enhance their chances of survival.

She predicted that if Diệm and Nhu and Madame Nhu did not leave Vietnam then they would inevitably be killed.

President Diem and his brother Nhu, who oversaw the GVN side of the Program, decided — contrary to Hilsman's and Thompson's theory — that in most cases they would relocate entire villages rather than simply restructuring them.

Amid religious protests that garnered worldwide attention, Diệm lost the backing of his U. S. patrons and was assassinated, along with his brother, Ngô Đình Nhu by Nguyễn Văn Nhung, the aide of ARVN General Dương Văn Minh on 2 November 1963, during a coup d ' état that deposed his government.

Nhu was fooled by the loyalist General Tôn Thất Đính, who had turned against the Ngô family.

On 1 November 1963, Chuong's son-in-law Ngô Ðình Nhu and Nhu's brother, President Ngô Ðình Diệm were assassinated in a coup d ' état led by General Dương Văn Minh.

Diem and Nhu refused to surrender, so the 5th Division of Colonel Nguyễn Văn Thiệu besieged the palace and captured it by dawn.

Madame Nhu, the First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 – 63, was a great-granddaughter of Đồng Khánh.

The French dismissed Nhu from his high-ranking post, due to Diệm's nationalist activities, and he moved to the central highlands resort town of Đà Lạt and lived comfortably, editing a newspaper.

* 1963 – Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.

* 1958 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

* July 7 – Double Seven Day scuffle: Secret police loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, attack American journalists including Peter Arnett and David Halberstam at a demonstration during the Buddhist crisis.

** Xa Loi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalise Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.

** Ngo Dinh Nhu, Vietnamese military leader ( b. 1910 ) ( assassinated )

The elections were held, with Diệm's brother and confidant Ngô Đình Nhu, the leader of the family's Cần Lao Party, which supplied Diệm's electoral base, organising and supervising the elections.

Madame Nhu, the wife of Diệm's younger brother Nhu, was South Vietnam's de facto First Lady, and a Catholic convert herself.

As demonstrations against his government continued throughout the summer, the special forces loyal to Diệm ’ s brother, Nhu, conducted a brutal August raid of the Xá Lợi pagoda in Saigon.

During this time, Diệm's sister-in-law, Madame Nhu, a Catholic convert and former Buddhist, the de facto first lady because of Diệm ’ s unmarried status, inflamed the situation by mockingly applauding the suicides, referring to them as “ barbecues ”, stating, “ If the Buddhists want to have another barbecue, I will be glad to supply the gasoline .” The pagoda raids stoked widespread public disquiet in Saigon.

On 1 November, with only the palace guard remaining to defend Diệm and his younger brother, Nhu, the generals called the palace offering Diệm exile if he surrendered.

The poll was supervised by his younger brother, Ngô Ðình Nhu.

Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu were interred here.

The main purpose of the new group was to help the Vietcong " acquire a new international stature ," according to Justice Minister Truong Nhu Trang.

* Truong Nhu Tang.

Minh was reported to be mortified when he realised that Diệm and Nhu had escaped in the middle of the night leaving the rebels to fight for an empty building.

" Lodge believed Xuân was at least partly culpable, asserting: " Diem and Nhu had been assassinated, if not by Xuan personally, at least at his direction.

We had to kill Nhu because he was so widely feared — and he had created organizations that were arms of his personal power.

The generals knew very well that having no talent, no moral virtues, no political support whatsoever, they could not prevent a spectacular comeback of the president and Mr. Nhu if they were alive.

Conein asserted that Minh's humiliation by Diệm and Nhu was a major motivation for ordering their executions.