The world's popular Nobel Peace Prize is very important for everyone. Vietnam Buddhist monk Thich Kwong Duk, who has been nominated several times for this award, died at the age of 93. He was a disgruntled monk. He spent most of his life advocating religious freedom and human rights run by the community.
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Thich Kwong was born in the Thai province of Vietnam in 1928. He was the head of the Banned Buddhist Monastery of Vietnam (UBCV). Thich Kwong, who called for human rights and religious freedom, was vocal against the Vietnam government. Due to his fanaticism, he was arrested in 2003. He was placed under house arrest. Since then he was constantly under police supervision. The UBVC was banned from the early 1980s when it refused to join the state-sanctioned Vietnam Buddhist Church.
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The Banned Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) gave official notice of his death on Saturday night. According to his signature on April 2019, Thich Kwong wanted 'my ashes to be scattered in the sea after the last cremation. No donations should be taken for my last trip. I will not have an autobiography, no emotional show... just praying.'
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He always advocated a democratic system. He was nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle for the establishment of democracy in Vietnam. He continued to fight for religious freedom. He kept demanding the independence of Buddhist monasteries. He continued to raise his voice against the government over human rights. For this reason, the Vietnam government put him under house arrest. The following year he received Norway's Ruffoto Human Rights Award for his personal courage and perseverance for three decades of peaceful protest against communist rule in Vietnam.
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