Nimeiry proclaims the Sharia as the basis…
1983 CE
Nimeiry's decrees, which become known as the September Laws, are bitterly resented both by secularized Muslims and by the predominantly non-Muslim southerners.
The SPLM denounces the sharia and the executions and amputations ordered by religious courts.
Meanwhile, the security situation in the south has deteriorated so much that by the end of 1983 it amounts to a resumption of the civil war.
