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Thich Quang Đức


Thich Quang Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk whoburned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Thích Quảng Đức was protesting against the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam's Ngô Đình Diệm administration.  ” via

photo by Malcolm Browne and it won him a World Press Photo of the Year.

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