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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30339, 15 January 1964, Page 11

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Mrs Nhu Seeks U.N. Inquiry (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PARIS, January 13. Mrs Ngo Dinh Nhu, the sister-in-law of the late President Ugo Dinh Diem, of South Vietnam, today asked for an inquiry by an “unprejudiced commission’” into the overthrow of the Diem Government in Saigon last November. In a letter to the United Nations Secretary - General and Heads of State of United Nations members she said the commission should investigate “circumstances of the disappearance” of her husband and President Diem. She said pictures of their bodies were “unconvincing” and that according to available facts it was “not even certain that the two men are dead.” Mrs Nhu also called for an investigation into “the complicity of certain American circles in the military coup d’etat against the legal Government of Vietnam” and said the United States Embassy had violated the right of asylum by handing over Mr Ngo Dinh Kan, a brother of President Diem. She asked for United Nations safeguards to enable her to “identify the bodies of my relatives, if it is true that they are dead, and see to their burial according to the customs of our religion and our fatherland.”