Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc

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Thích Quảng Đức (1897 – 11 June 1963, born Lâm Văn Túc, was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963.


 Quang Duc was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm. 

Photographs of his self-immolation were circulated widely across the world and brought attention to the policies of the Diệm government. 


John F. Kennedy said in reference to a photograph of Duc on fire, "No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one." 

Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the monk's death. After his death, his body was re-cremated, but his heart purportedly remained intact.


Thursday, February 27, 2014

Dark Heart of Walter E. Kurtz

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Walter E. Kurtz served two tours of duty in Vietnam before he established his Cambodian outpost and became a pariah to the U.S. military establishment.


During those two tours of duty, Walter E. Kurtz was a part of the Gamma Program, the recruitment of montagnard tribesmen from the highlands of Vietnam and Cambodia to conduct a war of attrition against the North Vietnamese.








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