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On 10 June 1963, Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon. He emerged from a car, seated himself in the lotus position and meditated while his colleagues poured gasoline over him. Đức then struck a match and dropped it on himself. As flames consumed his robes and flesh, “he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him.” The self-immolation was done in response to the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem administration. This picture, first published in black and white, was taken by Associated Press photographer Malcolm Browne.