Two members of the National Spiritual Assembly who were present when the national headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City was confiscated were arrested and sent to reeducation camps.[43][44] In a message sent a year later, the Universal House of Justice reported that Vietnam was among "those countries where the Baháʼí Administration cannot operate or has had to be disbanded".[45] Community numbers dropped sharply during this time as thousands of Baháʼís fled the country, arriving as refugees in the United States and other countries, where efforts were made to contact and integrate them into local Baháʼí communities.[46] Baháʼís in a number of countries throughout the world began sending support to those Baháʼís who remained in Vietnam, regularly sending parcels of medicine, clothes and other necessities; some were able to visit the country and meet with Baháʼís personally.