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What happened to the unpopular South Vietnamese democratic leader put into power by the United States. He was murdered He was imprisoned He got sick He was sent to exile

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Diem's heavy-handed tactics against the Viet Cong insurgency deepened his government's unpopularity, and his brutal treatment of the opposition to his regime alienated the South Vietnamese populace, notably Buddhists. In 1963 he was murdered during a coup d'état by some of his generals.

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He was murdered is the correct answer
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