Editing 1983 (section)

==Events==
*January 3 - [[Robert Mugabe]] and the [[ZANU-PF|Zimbabwe African National Union]] initiate the ''[[Gukurahundi]]'', a series of violent ethnic massacres and [[pogrom]]s designed to quell dissent among the Ndebele tribe.
*April 3 - The [[1983 Lucanamarca Massacre]] occurs when [[Shining Path]] kills 69 people in and around the town of Lucanamarca.  
*April 3 - [[Al-Muhajiroun]] is founded by [[Omar Bakri Mohammed]].
*April 8 - [[Lam Kor-wan]] is sentenced to death for 4 charges of murder.
*June 5 - Beginning of the Second Sudanese Civil War.
*July 10 - Martial law in Poland is lifted. The [[Military Council of National Salvation]] is disbanded.
*July 23 - The Sri Lankan Civil War begins when the [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]] begin an insurgency to create an independent state of Tamil Eelam.
*August 4 - [[Thomas Sankara]] comes to power in Upper Volta following a successful coup.
*August 8 - [[Efraín Ríos Montt]] is deposed as President of Guatemala in a coup lead by [[Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores]].
*August 21 - Benigno Aquino Jr. is assasinated at the Manila International Airport (now known as the Ninoy Aquino International Airport), allegedly on the orders of President [[Ferdinand Marcos]].
*September 1 - [[Korean Air Lines Flight 007]] is shot down over the Sea of Japan by the Soviet Air Force, who believe it to be an American spy plane. All 269 passengers and crew are killed.
*October 10 - [[Menachem Begin]]'s term as Prime Minister of Israel ends. [[Yitzhak Shamir]] is elected as his successor.
*December 10 - The [[National Reorganization Process]] junta of Argentina is dissolved.
*December 31 - [[Muhammad Buhari]] seizes power in Nigeria in a military coup.
*Unknown - The [[Family Research Council]] is founded.