In July 1993 I made an official visit to Khartoum to meet the NIF leadership to hear their viewpoint and to visit areas under their control in Juba, the Nuba Mountains and camps for the displaced around Khartoum. In Khartoum in 1993, we heard repeated reference by NLF leaders to commitment to Jihad. It includes policies of forced Islamisation and Arabisation. In Eastern Sudan, the Beja Muslim people have been driven off their lands to scavenge and to die in the desert. Our detailed evidence is based on first-hand witness and testimonies.
Time allows few examples.
More details can be found in the fuller reports available on request. Military offensives are designed to kill civilians, or to terrorize them and drive them off their lands. Aerial bombardments by high flying Antonovs or low-flying helicopter gunships often precede or accompany ground offensives. We have witnessed massacres on a huge scale. The scale of killing in many areas justifies, we believe, the use of the term genocide .