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Xá Lợi Pagoda

The Xá Lợi Pagoda raids were attacks on various Buddhist pagodas in South
Vietnam in 1963, executed by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces
and combat police, who both took their orders from Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of
President Ngô Đình Diệm. South Vietnam's Buddhist majority were protesting
religious bias and discrimination, and temples in major cities, notably Xá Lợi
Pagoda (pictured) in Saigon, became focal points for protesters. On 21 August,
Nhu's men attacked, looted and vandalised the pagodas. In Huế, street battles
erupted between government forces and rioting civilians. Over 1,400 Buddhists
were arrested, and estimates of the number dead or missing ranged up to the
hundreds. The Ngô family claimed that the army had carried out the raids; this
was later debunked, prompting the United States to turn against the regime,
leading to Diệm's overthrow. In response to the raids, several public servants
resigned, and university and high school students boycotted classes and staged
demonstrations. (Full article...)

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Bhatt's production Sangharsh (1999), as the younger version of star Preity
Zinta's character. In 2014, she gained praise for playing a kidnapping victim in
the road drama Highway (2014), winning a Filmfare Critics Award for Best
Actress. In the same year, her starring roles in the commercially successful
romances 2 States and Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, both produced under Johar's
studio Dharma Productions, established her as a leading actress. Bhatt had three
notable releases in 2016: Kapoor & Sons, Dear Zindagi, and Udta Punjab, in which
she played young women in troubling circumstances. Her performance in Udta
Punjab won her a Filmfare Award for Best Actress. Following another romantic
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preying mostly on large ungulates. It is an apex and keystone predator. Although
some lions scavenge when opportunities occur and have been known to hunt humans,
they typically do not actively seek out and prey on humans. This six-year-old
male lion was photographed in the Phinda Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal,
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Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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