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History > 20th century > Cold War > USA, Vietnam
Buddhist protests
warning: graphic / distressing
One of Malcolm W. Browne’s famed series of photos of a Buddhist monk setting himself on fire in Saigon in an anti-government protest in June 1963.
Photograph: Malcolm W. Browne Associated Press
Images of the Vietnam War That Defined an Era NYT September 14, 2013
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/
Related In the first of a series of self-immolations by Buddhist monks, Thich Quang Duc burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government on 11 June 1963.
The photograph aroused worldwide outrage and hastened the end of the Ngo Dinh Diem government.
With the photograph on his Oval Office desk, President Kennedy remarked to his ambassador: “We’re going to have to do something about that regime.”
Photograph: Malcolm Browne AP
Vietnam: The Real War – in pictures G Wednesday 22 April 2015 11.13 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/22/
31 May 1966
Vietnam Buddhist burns to death
A 17-year-old Buddhist girl has committed suicide by setting herself alight in a street in the city of Hue.
She was protesting against the South Vietnam regime.
It is the fifth such death in three days.
A girl of 19 set herself alight two days ago outside a pagoda in Saigon and a monk did the same in the mountain town of Dalat.
In June 1963 Buddhist monk Quang Duc became famous when he was photographed setting himself alight in a suicide protest against the South Vietnamese government then under Ngo Dinh Diem.
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The Buddhists are demanding the resignation of the military government led by Prime Minister Air Vice Marshal Ky and Head of State General Nguyen van Thieu. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/31/newsid_2973000/2973209.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/31/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/08/28/
With Washington's tacit approval (...) (President) (Ngo Dinh) Diem (1901-1963) and his brother were captured and later killed - November 1, 1963
Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu (1910-1963), had raided the Buddhist pagodas of South Vietnam, claiming that they had harbored the Communists that were creating the political instability.
The result was massive protests on the streets of Saigon that led Buddhist monks to self-immolation.
The pictures of the monks engulfed in flames made world headlines and caused considerable consternation in Washington.
By late September, the Buddhist protest had created such dislocation in the south that the Kennedy administration supported a coup.
In 1963, some of Diem's own generals in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) approached the American Embassy in Saigon with plans to overthrow Diem.
With Washington's tacit approval, on November 1, 1963, Diem and his brother were captured and later killed.
Three weeks later, President Kennedy was assassinated on the streets of Dallas. http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/history/
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/history/
https://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/us/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/08/28/
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/14/
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/17/
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/01/
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/01/
The Buddhist Protests of 1963
Following years of growing tension, the Buddhist majority in South Vietnam reached its breaking point under the repressive regime of Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem.
On May 8, 1963, in the ancient imperial capital of Hue, South Vietnamese soldiers opened fire on a group of Buddhists who were flying the Buddhist flag in direct violation of a government ban.
Nine were killed.
In late May and early June, the Saigon Buddhists staged street demonstrations and memorial services for the victims of the May 8 incident. http://www.ap.org/explore/the-burning-monk/
Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from the Linh-Mu Pagoda in Hue, Vietnam, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon - June 11, 1963
Eye witness accounts state that Thich Quang Duc and at least two fellow monks arrived at the intersection by car, Thich Quang Duc got out of the car, assumed the traditional lotus position and the accompanying monks helped him pour gasoline over himself.
He ignited the gasoline by lighting a match and burned to death in a matter of minutes.
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http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/22/
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