Fiery Suicide

Malcolm Browne

Associated Press

His body blackened, the Rev. Quang Duc, a Buddhist Monk, sits stoically in the midst of flames before thousands of onlookers at a main street intersection in Saigon, Vietnam. He put a match to his gasoline soaked robes to protest alleged persecutions of Buddhists by the Vietnamese government.

Malcolm Browne, "Fiery Suicide," in POYi Archive, Item #5102, http://archive.poy.org/index.php/items/show/5102 (accessed June 7, 2025).