Senator Romeo Dallaire, formerly Force Commander of UNAMIR, the UN peacekeeping force for Rwanda 1993-1994, speaks to the Canadian Senate of “state-sanctioned persecution” extending to the Baha’i community in Iran. The Iranian government has sanctioned arbitrary arrests and detention, mass expulsion from educational institutions, and denial of employment in the public sector, along with the incitement of hatred and the constant threat of violence.” ‘Having banned the elected bodies and the ad hoc groups responsible for seeing to the needs of the Baha’i community, the Government of Iran is now attempting to prevent Baha’is from having any form of community life, a flagrant denial of the religious freedoms outlined in Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.”