The TikTok-loving Sudanese ‘Butcher of the Century’ warlord who boasted of slaughtering 2,000 people after horrific footage showed him coldly executing men one by one
A Sudanese commander stands in front of a cowering group of unarmed men, aiming his gun at them imposingly.
One by one, the paramilitary fighter known as Abu Lulu proceeds to shoot the group of nine at point-blank range, leaving their bodies in a heap on the ground as soldiers cheer and chant his name.
The execution, depicted in a video circulating online, was one of multiple scenes of violence to emerge from the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher since it was seized by paramilitaries last weekend.
Over 2,000 civilians were murdered by members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in a 48-hour massacre after the western Sudanese city fell to the rebels.
In a video on Monday, Abu Lulu – whose real name is Brigadier General Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris – boasted that he may have been personally responsible for slaughtering more than 2,000.
In other chilling footage, he can be seen smiling as he mocks three men begging for their lives.
The warlord – dubbed the ‘butcher of the century’ after appearing in multiple videos on his TikTok committing summary executions – ignores their pleas and shoots them.
He is understood to have amassed hundreds of thousands of followers and features in multiple videos where he proudly brandishes his RSF patch.
The northeast African nation was plunged into a deadly conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions about the future of the country between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the head of the paramilitary rebel group erupted.
After more than 18 months of brutal siege warfare, the RSF finally seized control of el-Fasher – the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in the vast Darfur region in the west of the country.
In a video on Monday, Abu Lulu – whose real name is Brigadier General Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris – boasted that he may have been personally responsible for slaughtering more than 2,000
Screen grab shows Abu Lulu pointing his weapon at unarmed civilians
More than 2,000 civilians were reportedly executed in 48 hours in Sudan after the city of El-Fasher was captured by paramilitaries
As tens of thousands of people attempted to flee the besieged city, the RSF began massacring civilians in large numbers.
Abu Lulu, who has been called the ‘star’ of the recent videos depicting violence in Sudan, has a history of being accused of war crimes by human rights groups.
In August, he was documented in similar shootings across Sudan, including one alleged incident in the outskirts of el-Fasher.
According to a transcript by Sudans Post, Abu Lulu reportedly asked a man, who said he was a restaurant owner, to disclose the location of the leader of an enemy infantry division.
Abu Lulu demanded that he ‘talk straight,’ adding: ‘I swear to God I don’t talk much, and I don’t spare people. Since God established the Rapid Support (Forces), I have never spared anyone – not a prisoner, not anyone.’
The terrified man insists he doesn’t have the information.
Abu Lulu then questioned him about his ethnic background before reportedly pulling out his handgun and shooting him dead.
The RSF released a video appearing to show Abu Lulu behind bars in what they claimed to be a North Darfur prison.
It said ‘legal committees’ had begun investigations ‘in preparation for bringing them (the fighters) to justice’.
In a statement late Thursday, the RSF said it had detained several fighters accused of ‘violations that occurred during the liberation’ of El-Fasher.
The group also affirmed its adherence to ‘the law, rules of conduct and military discipline during wartime’.
El-Fasher has been cut off from all communications since its fall, but survivors who reached the nearby town of Tawila told AFP of mass killings, children shot before their parents and civilians beaten and robbed as they fled.
After fighting initially exploded in Khartoum in April 2023, it rapidly spread, where it is now estimated that at least 150,000 people have been killed, including many civilians.
The civil war has forced more than 14 million people to flee their homes and left some families eating grass in a desperate attempt to survive as famine swept parts of the country.
Abu Lulu, who has been called the ‘star’ of the recent videos depicting violence in Sudan, has a history of being accused of war crimes by human rights groups
This handout picture released by the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on October 30, 2025, shows RSF members reportedly detaining a fighter known as Abu Lulu (L) in El-Fasher, in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region
A video released by local activists and authenticated by AFP shows Abu Lulu in RSF-controlled areas shooting a group of unarmed civilians sitting on the ground at point-blank range
In this satellite photo provided by Planet Labs PBC, the area around the headquarters of the Sudanese military’s 6th Division in el-Fasher, Sudan, is seen Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025
Satellite images have revealed the tragic aftermath of a 48-hour massacre in Sudan which saw over 2,000 civilians executed by paramilitary rebels
Bodies and blood: The sand around the western city of El Fasher is now stained red with pools of blood so thick they can be seen from space
Satellite images revealing the tragic aftermath of the two-day ethnic purge show military vehicles surrounded by bodies and pools of blood so large they can be seen from space.
Allies of the army, the Joint Forces, said on Tuesday that the RSF ‘committed heinous crimes against innocent civilians, where more than 2,000 unarmed citizens were executed and killed on October 26 and 27, most of them women, children and the elderly’.
The total death toll could not immediately be confirmed, but the shocking satellite images taken after the fall of El Fasher showed evidence of the mass killings.
Body-sized objects were seen in the satellite images clustered around vehicles and nearby an RSF sand berm built around the city.
There have been reports of civilians being gunned down as they attempted to break out and flee the bloodshed.
Analysis by the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), which has been tracking the siege using open source images and satellite imagery, found clusters of objects ‘consistent with the size of human bodies’ and ‘reddish ground discolouration’ thought to be either blood or disturbed soil.
One video from the massacre purportedly showed a child soldier murdering a grown man in cold blood, while one other clip showed RSF fighters executing civilians just moments after pretending to release them.
A report published on Monday said the actions of the RSF ‘may be consistent with war crimes and crimes against humanity and may rise to the level of genocide’.
Local groups and international NGOs had warned that El-Fasher’s fall could trigger mass atrocities, fears that Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab said were coming true.
The monitor, which relies on open source intelligence and satellite imagery, said the city ‘appears to be in a systematic and intentional process of ethnic cleansing of Fur, Zaghawa, and Berti indigenous non-Arab communities through forced displacement and summary execution’.
This included what appeared to be ‘door-to-door clearance operations’ in the city.
Tens of thousands of people have now fled El Fasher since it fell, with many of them now heading westwards to Tawila.
A video clip seemingly showing the panicked flight captures scores running from the city, clutching on to the little belongings they have left as RSF fighters hurl racial insults at them and beat them.
In another scene, a number of militants dressed in RSF’s recognised uniform and turban are seen crammed into a truck, chasing unarmed civilians as they run for their lives.
Gunfire can be heard ringing out as one fighter shouts ‘kill the Nuba’, a reference to Sudan’s black African tribes.
On Monday, UN rights chief Volker Turk spoke of a growing risk of ‘ethnically motivated violations and atrocities’ in El Fasher.
His office said it was ‘receiving multiple, alarming reports that the Rapid Support Forces are carrying out atrocities, including summary executions’.
Abu Lulu has a history of being accused of war crimes by human rights groups
This image grab taken from handout video footage released on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Telegram account on October 26, 2025, shows RSF fighters holding weapons and celebrating in the streets of El-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur
The paramilitaries have a track record of atrocities, having killed as many as 15,000 civilians from non-Arab groups in the West Darfur capital of El-Geneina
Screen grab shows unarmed civilians running away as they are chased by paramilitaries
The World Health Organisation said the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher, the city’s last remaining hospital, was on Sunday ‘attacked for the fourth time in a month, killing one nurse and injuring three other health workers’
A maternity hospital massacre left 460 people dead during the 48-hour killing spree.
The World Health Organisation said the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher, the city’s last remaining hospital, was on Sunday ‘attacked for the fourth time in a month, killing one nurse and injuring three other health workers’.
Two days later, ‘six health workers, four doctors, a nurse and a pharmacist, were abducted’ and ‘more than 460 patients and their companions were reportedly shot and killed in the hospital,’ by RSF paramilitaries, the organisation said.
Footage purportedly capturing the aftermath of the hospital massacre showed bodies scattered across the floor among debris and broken equipment.
‘I was performing surgery in the hospital when heavy shelling occurred. A mortar hit the hospital. I was so worried because the woman’s wounds were open, and everyone was running around me,’ Dr Suhiba, a gynaecologist, told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.
In a statement, the RSF said it ‘categorically denied’ the allegations that it carried out the massacre at the hospital, which it said were part of an ‘intensive propaganda campaign’.
