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Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
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Vietnam War
War in Southeast Asia from 1955 to 1975
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
South Vietnam
Country in Southeast Asia (1955–1975)
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Trương Đình Dzu
South Vietnamese lawyer and politician (1917–1991)
Trương Đình Dzu was a South Vietnamese lawyer and politician who unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the presidency in the 1967 elections against Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and his running mate Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, who were the leaders of the incumbent military junta. Dzu finished second in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Penal labour
Type of forced labour performed by prisoners
Penal labour or prison labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour that prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard, depending on the context. Forms of sentence involving penal labour have included involuntary servitude,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Coalition government
Governmental style in which political parties cooperate to form a government
A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a government by political parties that enter into a power-sharing arrangement of the executive. Coalition governments usually occur when no single party has achieved an absolute majority after an election. A party not having…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)