Posted on Jun 23, 2018
In Thich Quang Duc, the monk that set himself afire in Siagon I find facts totally different. What is the Japanese translation of 釋 ?
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The Chinese word 釋 has also been translated into Japanese. I can not find the Japanese characters for this word or even the real meaning. BUT, that is not the issue, just a small bit. Here is what I want to talk about:
Evidently, Thich Quang Doc did not immolate himself as a protest to the war between North and South. Thich Quang Duc was angered by the heavy-handed government treatment of the Buddhists. Duc had decided on self-immolation ......
The rest of the story is found here: https://books.google.com/books?id=qBybCK8NjkEC&lpg=PA291&pg=PA291#v=onepage&q&f=false
Evidently, Thich Quang Doc did not immolate himself as a protest to the war between North and South. Thich Quang Duc was angered by the heavy-handed government treatment of the Buddhists. Duc had decided on self-immolation ......
The rest of the story is found here: https://books.google.com/books?id=qBybCK8NjkEC&lpg=PA291&pg=PA291#v=onepage&q&f=false
Vietnam War
Protest
Military History
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Everything I remember was that he was protesting treatment of Buddhists in Vietnam, not the war.
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PVT Mark Brown What you found is correct. He killed himself as a protest to the way that Buddhists were treated.
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Sgt Bob Leonard
PO3 Bob McCord - Bob (I mean, the other Bob),
I've spent some time looking for and at the story as it was originally presented in 1963. I haven't been able to find a single one that recounted the event as anything other than what it was: a Buddhist Monk protesting Pres. Diem's heavy-handed treatment and abuses of the Buddhist religion and its adherents. He did not do it as a protest against "the war", and it was not reported as such in the American media. At least, not in any of the original sources I could find (i.e. Time magazine, NY Times, Malcolm Brown, the photographer who took the pictures).
If you can point to an ORIGINAL report of the event that labeled it an "antiwar protest", I'd be interested in seeing it. Otherwise, it was not "fake news". The contemporary reporting of it was accurate.
I've spent some time looking for and at the story as it was originally presented in 1963. I haven't been able to find a single one that recounted the event as anything other than what it was: a Buddhist Monk protesting Pres. Diem's heavy-handed treatment and abuses of the Buddhist religion and its adherents. He did not do it as a protest against "the war", and it was not reported as such in the American media. At least, not in any of the original sources I could find (i.e. Time magazine, NY Times, Malcolm Brown, the photographer who took the pictures).
If you can point to an ORIGINAL report of the event that labeled it an "antiwar protest", I'd be interested in seeing it. Otherwise, it was not "fake news". The contemporary reporting of it was accurate.
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
PO3 Bob McCord - True, In fact Roman Catholic was the largest single religion in Vietnam. The Buddhist did make up a major religion but not actually the largest in that country.
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I googled 釋 and got the response of "release". I can only imagine the reaction of the American people when they saw the iconic pictures of self immolation and the nude girl burned by napalm.
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
MAJ Ken Landgren -That's what I thought also Major but on checking it was a Major Tuan's family that was murdered. that included the Major's wife, 6 children and 80 year old mother. Lem bragged about the killing and also a total of 34 other people He had murdered and left dead in a ditch. He was targeting Vietnamese National Police family members. Lem was a Captain in the Viet Cong and a member of a murder Squad.
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COL William Oseles
I thought so as well, but I did remember that Gen Loan recognized several of the victims. Of course that did not fit the Editor's narrative that it was a brutal and totally unjustified murder. And it took years for the truth to come out about the circumstances before the picture.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
COL William Oseles - I cheated and googled him just now. It did not mention his family but his subordinates families. He lost a leg but a third party hospital would not help him because of the picture. He eventually came to the US to much protest. He quietly opened up a Pizza Shop but he had to close it down in 1991 due to his infamy.
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