Image ID | 27552 |
Title | Buddhist demonstration at Xa Loi Pagoda |
Collection | Saigon |
Location | Saigon |
Date | Friday 2 August 1963 |
Image type | Black and white photograph |
Material form of image | Digital |
sourceImage | Manh Hai Gallery (Corbis collection) |
Note(s) | 02 Aug 1963, Saigon, South Vietnam - Expressions of joy beam on the faces of Buddhist priests and nuns as a number of their counterparts stepped out of buses after being released by the Vietnamese government authority from a makeshift prison compound. The Buddhists all demonstrators who were arrested by club-swinging police, went to the main Xa Loi Pagoda. The headquarters of the Vietnamese Buddhist Resistance movement in Saigon, after being held three days at a Buddhist Cemetery outside of the city. (U1388858) |
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