Lïëng Kwë́k Bǎǎw

Lïëng Kwë́k Bǎǎw (Dieu: ; January 11, 1913 - July 10, 1988) was a Dieuese military general, and statesman who served as the President of the Republic of Daidieu from 1979 to 1986. A four-star general in the Dieuese Armed Forces, Lïëng held several important military and political offices, including the Minister of National Defense from 1969 to 1971 and the Chief of Defense from 1966 to 1969.

Before his presidency, Lïëng was a respected military general and the second-highest ranking officer in the Dieuese Armed Forces from 1969 onwards. Initially supporting the communist takeover of Daidieu in 1972, Lïëng increasingly held distrust and resentment towards the Communist Party, and his relations with the takeover's leader Kim Nàu Szì grew cold, before becoming a full-blown rivalry as the decade went on.

By 1978, the Dieuese people had had enough of communist rule and the Red Terror. Lïëng and several other anti-Kim generals such as Phí Paíc Thièhn began to discuss a Vietnamese invasion of Daidieu with the People's Army of Vietnam. On January 28, 1979, the Têt Expedition began and the People's Republic was overthrown the same day. Lïëng declared the Republic of Daidieu, a semi-presidential republic.