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Burning Monk – The Self-Immolation [1963]

Photographer: Malcolm Browne

June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon to bring attention to the repressive policy of the Catholic Diem regime that controlled the South Vietnamese government at that time. The monks asked the regime to lift the ban on the traditional Buddhist flag, Buddhism is also asking the same rights as Catholics, to carry out their religious teachings, and stop holding the Buddha to spread their religion.