Nguyen Khanh - Saigon Quotes

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I was supporting the Buddhists. But the, the Buddhists in a a general uh strategy. You know, we have uh... India, Burma, Cambodia... uh Vietnam, Taiwan, and Japan. What we call that... it's a Yellow Bear. Yellow Bear to stop the red invasion. That's a kind of, of uh, uh... religion side of the fight again the Communists. So I was for the organization of kind of international Buddhists. And if you remember, we had a headquarters, international Buddhists at that time, in Saigon to all, to buil—build its forces, to face Communists red, "vague" of red, you know, invasion from the China, Indochina or Russian.

Nguyen Khanh

The council uh, forced me to leave the, the country. That was officially, but, in fact, you know, it's 'n... uh... there are many books writing of that, that, that uh incident and the American official in Saigon are very pleased at that time to see me uh out of the country.

Nguyen Khanh

I remember that day clearly when I left Saigon. I left my country in honor that day, not like Thieu who fled later. My cabinet, my troops, the whole diplomatic corps were there at the airport to bid me farewell.

Nguyen Khanh

I feel very, very badly and uh I left Saigon... with some of my... soil of the you know Vietnam you know in my hand... I left uh seeing the soldier that I always command, you know, for two decades. Uh... behind. I feel that I missed to bring peace to my people. And I feel that uh maybe the only time that we can have that peace, you know, and have dignity of South Vietnam, the sovereignty, respected by every people and I feel very badly, of course.

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