"Their thin wrists dangle over their knees. They are exhausted and defeated, held prisoner by long-haired militiamen in camouflage slacks, one of whom brandishes a whip over his head. Another, Alfateh Abdullah Idris, who goes by the nickname Abu Lulu, casually begins firing a Kalashnikov rifle down the row of prisoners. The final man, in a last-second protective reflex, bows his head and crosses his hands over it, but bullets send him flying backward,"
"Abu Lulu holds the rank of brigadier general in the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that broke away from and, since April of 2023, has fought against the Sudanese Armed Forces for control of Sudan, a gold-rich country in northeast Africa. The day the videos were posted, Abu Lulu and the other fighters were celebrating their capture of the city."
On October 27th a video showed at least nine men slumped beside a dirt track in El Fasher, held by long-haired militiamen while Alfateh Abdullah Idris (Abu Lulu) fired a Kalashnikov along the row and bullets sent a man flying backward. Abu Lulu is a brigadier general in the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that split and has fought the Sudanese Armed Forces since April 2023. The R.S.F. besieged El Fasher for five hundred days using drones and UAE-provided artillery, built a thirty-five-mile berm to block aid, and reduced the population from about one million to 260,000. The R.S.F. said it arrested Abu Lulu, but he was reported released and continued posting on social media.
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