 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Nhu akadana vatungamiri vanomwe ve10 kuGia Long Palace musi waAugust 20 nokuda kwekukurukurirana. Ivo vakapa chikumbiro chavo chomutemo wehondo ndokukurukura nzira yokuparadzanisa nayo mapoka avamongi navatsigiri vavo kubva mutembere muSaigon. Nhu akatuma vakuru vakuru kuti vaone Diem. Purezidhendi akateerera boka revanomwe, raitungamirirwa naGeneral Trần Văn Đôn. Boka racho raisanganisirawo mukuru wemauto General Trần Thiện Khiêm uye General Nguyễn Khánh, mutungamiri weII Corps muCentral Highlands. Khiêm naKhánh vaiva vaviri vevakuru vakuru vakanga vane mutoro wokubatsira kubvisa kuedza kupidigura hurumendevachirwa naDiệm muna 1960. Akanga aripowo mukwasha waDôn, General Đỗ Cao Trí, mutungamiriri weI Corps, uyo aitarisira nzvimbo yekuchamhembe kwakapoteredza Huế, uye General Lê Văn Kim, mukuru wechikoro chechiuto. Trí naKim vaifarirwa nehurumende yaDiệm. Mukuru mukuru Tôn Thất Đính, muparadzi akashinga, uyo akanga ariwo mukuru mukuru muduku weSouth Vietnam, akatungamirira III Corps yakapoteredza Saigon. General Huỳnh Văn Cao aive mutungamiri we IV Corps muMekong Delta uye ndiye oga we septet uyo aizoratidza kuti haana kubatanidzwa muhurongwa hwekupedzisira hwekurwisa Diệm. Đính naCao vaidzora matunhu maviri epasi pedyo neSaigon uye nokudaro nzvimbo mbiri dzinokosha zvikuru mukubudirira kana kukundikana kwekubudirira. Cao akanga ashandisa Chikamu chechinomwe che IV Corps yake kupamba guta guru muna 1960 kuponesa Diệm. 