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Ngo Dinh Diem refused to permit elections to reunify the country. U.S.-supported leaders in the area opposed the elections
Feared that Vietnam would vote for a Communist government.
They feared the Communists would win control.
Ho Chi Minh had a "handle" on that program, he wasn't worried about it. It was Diem of South Vietnam who refused the elections...saying the communists might win it (something to the effect that they were fixed).
In 1956, South Vietnam, with American backing, refused to hold the unification elections. By 1958, Communist-led guerrillas known as the Viet Cong had begun to battle the South Vietnamese government. By; Kenya Z. T. In 1956, South Vietnam, with American backing, refused to hold the unification elections. By 1958, Communist-led guerrillas known as the Viet Cong had begun to battle the South Vietnamese government. By; Kenya Z. T.
He refused the US draft in the Vietnam conflict.
At the end of the Vietnam War, Congress refused to support South Vietnam any longer.
Diem stated that elections would not being entirely free from communist influence, as the south had not been party to the 1954 Geneva peace agreements.
He hated it, wanted no part of it, and refused to be re-elected because of it.
he refused to reform his goverment
Because he refused to fight in the Vietnam War because of religious beliefs.
He refused to reform his government - Apex