Chronology: Date 1982-00

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1982 (In the year) 198-	One of the members of the National Spiritual Assembly of Vietnam sent to a 're-education' camp was released owing to ill health; the other remained in detention. [BW18:96]	Persecution, Vietnam; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Vietnam
1982 (In the year) 198-	Soon after the Islamic Revolution's victory in 1979, Baha'i cemeteries in various cities and villages were subjected to attacks by government forces, and were destroyed and seized by the government. The Bahá'í cemetery in Tehran, the Golestan Javid Cemetery, spanning an area of 83,000 square meters, was confiscated in 1982. Subsequently, the government demolished the burial site of over 15,000 Bahá'ís and sold the gravestones. The corpses were exhumed and transported away in trucks. Finally, the land was leveled by a bulldozer before the Khavaran Cultural Center was constructed thus the cultural center currently stands on the grounds of the former Baha'i cemetery. [IranWire 11 July 2023]	* Persecution, Iran; Golestan Javid Cemetery; Tehran, Iran; Iran
1982 (In the year) 198-	The Canadian Bahá'í International Development Service was established. [BBRSM154]	Development; Canada
1982 (In the year) 198-	The first publication of Arohanui: Letters from Shoghi Effendi to New Zealand by the Bahá'í Publishing Trust in Suva, Fiji Islands. [BW18p878]	Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; * Publications; Shoghi Effendi, Works of; New Zealand; Suva, Fiji; Fiji
1982 (In the year) 198-	The persecution of the Bahá'ís of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW18:92] Thirty–two Bahá'ís were executed or otherwise killed. [BW19:232] BW18:293–4 shows a slightly different, incorrect list. For pictures of the martyrs see BW18:295–305 and BW19:236–246. For a list of resolutions adopted by the United Nations, regional bodies, national and provincial governments, and other actions taken, see BW18:92–96 and BW19:44–46. For a list of the actions taken by the Bahá'í International Community, Bahá'í institutions and others see BW18:345–352, 369-379,420–424. See the Message from the Universal House of Justice dated 26 January 1982 for a summation of the steps taken by the coordinated Bahá'í community to expose the crimes of the Iranian regime and to bring pressure to have the persecutions stop.	* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; United Nations; Bahá'í International Community; Human rights; Iran


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