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Buddhist Monk Burns Alive

February 17th 2009 04:57

On June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon. He did this to bring attention to the repressive policies of the Catholic Diem regime that controlled the South Vietnamese government at the time and imposed strict religious bans on Buddhist monks and nuns, including preventing the flying of the traditional Buddhist flag.
While burning Thich Quang Duc never moved a muscle.
Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for this photo. David Halberstam for his written account.

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