Horrific videos show bloodthirsty Sudanese commander callously executing captives

A bloodthirsty Sudanese paramilitary commander callously executed men at point-blank range one by one — and then posted sickening footage of the slaughter on social media, as the country’s brutal civil war intensifies.

Video shared on social media, and reviewed by the BBC, shows the feared Rapid Support Forces (RSF) brigadier general Abu Lulu systematically gun down nine unarmed captives in the city of el-Fasher in Darfur, which was captured by the militants over the weekend after an 18-month siege.

In another disturbing clip, Abu Lulu — whose true name is Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris — was also seen berating a wounded man lying on the ground and threatening to rape him before he casually shot the man dead with an automatic rifle, the BBC reported.

The barbaric rogue soldier is seen in another video alongside armed men in RSF-style uniforms with dozens of dead bodies strewn about in the background.

The RSF said it has arrested Abu Lubu after he was filmed executing prisoners. Rapid Support Forces (RSF)/AFP via Getty Images

He had posted the horrific clips to a TikTok account online where he had more than 220,000 followers.

TikTok officials later confirmed to the BBC that the social media platform banned the account associated with Abu Lulu that had been sharing the sickening videos.

The footage comes after the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab said that satellite images taken of the besieged city appear to show evidence of mass killings carried out in the streets.

According to some estimates, as high as 2,000 civilians have been slaughtered by RSF militants since the city fell on Sunday.

The Yale researchers said their findings were “consistent with reports of executions” shared online and by the UN and human rights groups in recent days.

They stressed the “discoloration” in the images, which the analysts said may be human blood stains.

The RSF later said it had arrested Abu Lulu, and posted a photo showing him being led into a prison cell in handcuffs.

“In implementation of the leadership’s directives, and in adherence to the law, rules of conduct, and military discipline during wartime, our forces have arrested a number of individuals accused of violations that occurred during the liberation of the city of Al-Fashir, foremost among them, a man known as (Abu Lu’lu’ah),” RSF said.

“Specialized legal committees have begun investigating them in preparation for bringing them to justice.”

Dead bodies were seen piled up in Sudan in disturbing footage posted on social media. via REUTERS

The RSF has been fighting for control of Sudan in a bloody civil war with the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) since 2023 after the two sides’ precarious ruling coalition collapsed, according to the BBC.

More than 150,000 people have been killed in total and a further 12 million have fled the war-torn region.

The SAF has reportedly gained ground against the RSF — including recapturing the capital in Khartoum in the north. RSF still has a stronghold on nearly all of Darfur.

On Tuesday, some 460 patients and their companions were slaughtered at a Saudi Hospital RSF soldiers, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization.

RSF soldiers also went house to house, beating people and shooting them — including women and children, according to witnesses. Thousands of others have attempted to flee to safety.

RSF leaders said in a statement that the paramilitary group “categorically denied” those allegations, which it said were part of an “intensive propaganda campaign” with “no connection to reality,” the New York Times reported.

The city of el-Fasher was the last major urban center in the region still held by government forces and its allies until it fell.

The capture of el-Fasher by the RSF raises fears that Africa’s third-largest nation may again split and dive again into a genocidal civil war, with the paramilitaries holding Darfur and the military holding the capital, Khartoum and the north and east of the country.

Nearly 15 years ago, oil-rich South Sudan gained independence following years of civil war.

The UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting on Sudan this week amid international alarm over the bloodshed.

With Post wires