Clooney also pointed out that al-Bashir has "programmed" his citizens to live in fear, thus limiting their chances of survival.
"They kill people -- one village we were in, there were 34 people killed in the last two months, and it's a small village -- so they kill people, but more than that, they're keeping them hiding in the rocks, in the caves, so that they can't farm, and they miss their planting season this year," Clooney explained. "This is the oldest society in the world, if you read the Bible. These people have been there forever, and now they're not going to be able to feed themselves coming up in the next few months."