- Title: Thich Quang Duc
- Artist: Kalkervic
- Description: 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 policies of the Catholic Diem regime that controlled the South Vietnamese government at the time. Buddhist monks asked the regime to lift its ban on flying the traditional Buddhist flag, to grant Buddhism the same rights as Catholicism, to stop detaining Buddhists and to give Buddhist monks and nuns the right to practice and spread
- Date: 04/20/2008
- Tags: burning buddhist monk opression deep
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Comments (7 Comments)
- size658502 - 04/15/2008
- hehe so original avatar. grrr...
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- yoshiii 007 - 04/15/2008
- so cool ava!
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- orderonlinenow1 - 04/15/2008
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I've heard a lot of similar stories like that.
They're amazing yet sad... ;.; - Report As Spam
- Gruene Goddess - 04/15/2008
- intense!
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- Akiya-san - 04/15/2008
- 9
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- yoshiii 007 - 04/15/2008
- Oh!... pretty well-done ava woot
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- amyssa - 04/15/2008
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OMG (10) Thanks for putting a historical event in
the arena - maybe it will make some people
thankful for what they have (and what others have
earned for them) - Report As Spam