June 1963,
Saigon: Vietnam
June 11 Thich Quang Duc of Hue, on board a white Austin , left his temple on the banks of the Perfume River, reached Saigon and began publicly on fire to protest anti-Buddhist policy of "president" Diem.
September 2007,
Rangoon: Burma
Sunday five thousand demonstrators gathered in the Golden Shwedagon Pagoda, the main temple in the country, to pray together and express peacefully their dissent against the regime. The protests started by Buddhist monks, took the form of a huge procession immediately spilled into downtown streets of the old Burmese capital, up to and surrounding another important sacred site, the Sule Pagoda. The monks have asked the public to join them: "We march for the people", they said some monks. "We want that people will join us. "
Today, the tenth day of non-violent marches in the Burmese capital, the budget was 9 victims.
Let's keep the beat
Until the end _TheNightWatchMan_
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