Ho Chi Min City(Saigon)

HCMC....well its rather a dull city with not much to see...this photo shows a memorial across the road about a monk who killed him self here...during Vietnam war a monk fully in saffron outfit sat in middle of the road here in lotus position and another monk poured petrol on him and the sitting monk then cool as you like flicked the lighter and set him self on fire...he did not move a muscle while he burnt alive and died in same lotus position...the monk the night before informed only one US photographer to be at this site at this particular time to witness something unique...his photograph of lotus position saffron robed burning monk appeared front page all over the world following morning and specially in US ...and this one photograph with some others over the next few years made public in US rise up and protest against the immoral and unjust war in Vietnam and thus US left Vietnam defeat in 1974...