Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Major Matthew Sy Dang, (Vietnamese: Matheo Đặng Sỹ; born July 29, 1929 – died November 11, 2006) was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He acquired a degree of infamy for ordering his soldiers to open fire on a crowd of Buddhists demonstrating against a ban on the Buddhist flag, leading to the Huế Vesak shootings in which nine people died. This sparked the Buddhist crisis and downfall of Ngô Đình Diệm.. }
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- Đặng_Sỹ abstract "Major Matthew Sy Dang, (Vietnamese: Matheo Đặng Sỹ; born July 29, 1929 – died November 11, 2006) was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He acquired a degree of infamy for ordering his soldiers to open fire on a crowd of Buddhists demonstrating against a ban on the Buddhist flag, leading to the Huế Vesak shootings in which nine people died. This sparked the Buddhist crisis and downfall of Ngô Đình Diệm.".
- Đặng_Sỹ comment "Major Matthew Sy Dang, (Vietnamese: Matheo Đặng Sỹ; born July 29, 1929 – died November 11, 2006) was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He acquired a degree of infamy for ordering his soldiers to open fire on a crowd of Buddhists demonstrating against a ban on the Buddhist flag, leading to the Huế Vesak shootings in which nine people died. This sparked the Buddhist crisis and downfall of Ngô Đình Diệm.".