- Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: HUE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ON 48-HOUR HUNGER STRIKE
- Date: 1st May 1966
- Summary: 1. MS (PAN) STREET SCENE 0.08 2. MS ANTI-GOVERNMENT BANNERS ALONG ROAD 0.14 3. MS GENERAL THI IN JEEP TAKES PICTURE OF STRIKERS 0.16 4. CU BANNER (TILT UP) UNIVERSITY 0.30 5. MS BANNER ON UNIVERSITY (TILT DOWN) HUNGER STRIKE 0.35 6. MS STRIKERS 0.38 7. MS (PAN) STRIKERS 0.48 8. CU STUDENT LEADER ADDRESSING 0.49 9. CU SAME LEADER (TILT DOWN) STRIKERS 0.52 10. CU SAME LEADER (PAN) STRIKERS 1.13 Initials CAR/VS/CA/YA/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 16th May 1966 13:00
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- Location: HUE, SOUTH VIETNAM
- Country: Vietnam
- Reuters ID: LVA5OR67K2J9TTRLZRBR8FND7FJ9
- Story Text: IN SOUTH VIETNAM'S BUDDHIST-DOMINATED NORTHERN CITY OF HUE, A GROUP OF SCIENCE STUDENTS OF HUE UNIVERSITY ON FRIDAY (APRIL 29) WENT ON A 48-HOUR HUNGER STRIKE. THEY WERE IN SYMPATHY WITH THE AUTHORITIES OF THE DALAT UNIVERSITY AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AGAINST GOVERNMENT REPRESSION.
HUE, SOME 500 MILES NORTH OF SAIGON, IS THE HOTBED OF BUDDHIST AGITATION AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF PRIME MINISTER NGUYEN CAO KY, SINCE THE SACKING OF GENERAL NGUYEN CHANH THI FROM HIS POST AS COMMANDER OF FIVE NORTHERNMOST REGIONS, INCLUDING HUE. GENERAL THI WHO WAS UNSUCCESSFUL IN GETTING THE STUDENTS TO CALL OFF THEIR HUNGER STRIKE, LATER TOOK PICTURES OF THEM FROM AN ARMY JEEP.
(EARLIER, THE STUDENTS PARADED THROUGH THE STREETS OF HUE AS A DEMONSTRATION OF GRIEF OVER THE ALLEGED KILLING OF NINE STUDENTS BY GOVERNMENT TROOPS DURING THE POLITICAL UNREST IN DALAT, A MOUNTAIN RESORT ABOUT 200 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAIGON, EARLY LAST MONTH.)
A STUDENT LEADER, SPEAKING THROUGH A LOUDSPEAKER, REPEATEDLY ANNOUNCED THAT THE STUDENTS WERE STRUGGLING FOR A CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT IN SOUTH VIETNAM 'WHICH WOULD WIN THE WAR AGAINST THE COMMUNISTS.'
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