ABSTRACT
In 1992 the Sudan National Salvation Revolution Command Council was widely condemned because of the callous disregard it had demonstrated for the rights of its citizens in the North and the almost total lack of respect shown to citizens of Southern Sudan. Iran was also reported to have agreed to provide the NSRCC with a million tons of oil a year until the civil war ended. A government column moving south from Malakal overran Duk Fadiet and prepared to attack Bor, and for the first time there were reports that the government had used helicopter gunships. In April Norwegian People's Aid, which continued to be active east of the Nile, reported that conditions of the civilian population in the South were the worst they had been since the civil war began in 1983. As talks were progressing at Abuja, it was reported that the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) stronghold at Kapoeta had fallen to government troops.
