Vương Văn Đông
Lieutenant Colonel Vương Văn Đông (March 5, 1930 – April 21, 2018) was an officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam who led the failed coup attempt of 1960 against President Ngô Đình Diệm. After the failed coup, he fled to Cambodia with the other coup leaders aboard a commandeered air force C-47. Đông was allowed to quietly settle in France.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ Arthur J. Dommen, The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, Indiana University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-253-33854-9, pg 420
- ^ "Trung Tá Vương Văn Đông, một trong hai người đứng đầu 'cuộc đảo chính 1960,' qua đời" (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 13 August 2019.
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