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A Sudanese fighter dubbed the “Butcher of El-Fasher” has been arrested after reportedly live-streaming himself killing unarmed civilians and boasting about killing thousands more.

Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris, known as Abu Lulu, has bragged about killing ‘over 2,000 people’ in Sudan and joked that he would have to start the count over as there were so many.

Linked to a series of killings in Sudan, the warlord says he is part of the same Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group that has now arrested him.

“I wanted to kill 2,000, but I'm sure the number exceeded 2,000, but I got confused about the calculation,” he is reported to have said in one live-stream. “I lost track of it, but I will do it again starting from zero.”

Abu Lulu was arrested by RSF who initially denied any connection to him Abu Lulu was arrested by RSF who initially denied any connection to him (Rapid Support Forces (RSF)/AFP v)

Prolific on a since-banned Tik Tok account, the soldier filmed himself smiling and killing people while they begged for mercy, according to the BBC. In one such video, he is said to have asked a restaurant owner about his ethnicity before shooting him dead when the man confirms he is not Arab.

In another clip, a group of men are seen cowering in a row before they are shot dead at point-blank range, the BBC adds.

Abu Lulu was arrested and detained by the RSF this week for “human rights violations”, the group said in a statement on Telegram on 30 October.

But the RSF has been accused of orchestrating a “PR stunt” with the arrest in an attempt to distance themselves from the atrocities being carried out in Sudan. The group had previously denied any connection to Abu Lulu.

“However, many Sudanese did not buy into this and launched a hashtag: ‘You are all Abu Lulu’ – meaning the entire militia acts like him,” Sudanese writer Mohamed Suliman told The Guardian.

A Sudanese child who fled el-Fasher city with family after Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region A Sudanese child who fled el-Fasher city with family after Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region (AP)

Abu Lulu underwent military training and subsequently joined the RSF special forces in 2013. His family connections to the group’s military leader General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, helped him rise rapidly within the group.

During his early career he was deployed to Yemen several times and was transferred to the group’s intelligence team upon his return.

He became the personal guard of Abdelrheem Dagalo, Hemedti’s brother and deputy leader of the RSF at the time. In September 2023, sanctions were imposed on Dagalo due to allegations of war crimes and human rights abuses.

Abu Lulu went on to join several battles against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) including in the country’s capital Khartoum. He gained notoriety for his gruesome social media videos in which people are slaughtered.

In one clip verified by the New York Times, a man who pleads to be freed is summarily executed. The BBC confirmed that account has now been banned from TikTok.

Smoke billows from fires burning around El-Fasher Airport in satellite images Smoke billows from fires burning around El-Fasher Airport in satellite images (Satellite image ©2025 Vantor/AFP)

Abu Lulu claims he has killed thousands during the war, whose recent escalation saw at least 460 people killed at a maternity hospital in the city as the RSF captured El-Fasher after a lengthy siege.

Satellite images showed the aftermath of brutal killings in the city, where over 2,000 people including women and children are said to have been slaughtered. The RSF denies it is killing civilians.

The RSF released a video of Abu Lulu being driven under heavy guard to Shala Prison, located at the western edge of El-Fasher.

What is happening in Sudan?

The war-torn nation has endured decades of fighting, including 20 coups, two civil wars and the Darfur genocide, for which several leaders were indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, torture, rape and forced transfer.

The recent civil war was sparked in April 2023 after fighting broke out between the RSF, a powerful paramilitary group and the SAF.

After long-serving President Omar al-Bashir was ousted in 2019 - after himself coming to power after a coup in 1989 - a military-civilian government was formed. However, this was overthrown in 2021, led by the two men at the heart of the current conflict.

Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan gestures to soldiers inside the presidential palace Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan gestures to soldiers inside the presidential palace (via REUTERS)

They are General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the country’s president in effect and head of the armed forces, and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo, also known as Hemedti, who is the leader RSF.

They disagreed about the direction of the country, in particular plans to incorporate the RSF into Sudan’s armed forces. This led to bloody clashes in Khartoum in April 2023, with the initiator of the fight still under dispute.

The UAE has been accused of funding the RSF and British military equipment used by the RSF is said to have been found in the country last week, prompting controversy about the country’s sale of arms to the UAE.

Since then, the United Nations has dubbed Sudan the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Over 150,000 people are reported to have been killed and over 12 million have been displaced.

I had already posted the exact story at the time he posted his comment. Its literally the comment above his lol. Wild.

Cool, in a not super cool way. Nvidia is kinda scummy but the work they do is valuable. I appreciate you dropping the facts on me, but im not sure how to feel about them.

The first issue is definitely solvable, thats just a material science issue. The second one is also definitely possible, but depending on the payload it might be very difficult. Seems easier to just accelerate a tungsten sphere to mach 4 than to bother with a warhead.

For the intense heat, thats a waste product. Get rid of it by not producing it in the first place. Which means your rails are now cryocooled superconductors.

For the immense forces, i might need to look into railguns again. Afaik the only force that isnt being counteracted is the force on the projectile. I might be wrong at those power levels, while the net force should be zero the force on the arms could be opposite, ripping the railgun apart or crushing it. The solution i would think is coiling your rails around the barrel, now the rails effectively act as their own support with a minor bracing.

For the record, i didnt put it together that he was referring specifically to the large models. I just knew i made a rail gun back in high school and its wasnt difficult, so the idea that the US govt cant copy my project struck me as absurd.

Finally, im a hobby electrician with my passions lying more in technology and futurism, so i have looked into railguns in passing but I do not work for the military nor have i looked into the specifics of the large scale models, so corrections are more than welcome.

Yeah, but dont they also have the largest promisory debt? Havent they loaned the most most money that they dont actually have?

Uh, what? Railguns are a tech as old as time, i highly doubt the US was the first to create one. I could throw a railgun together in about 30 minutes with the stuff i have laying around the house. They are INCREDIBLY simple, literally 1 moving part and no circutry whatsoever. Just hook your positive to one rail, negative to the other. Right hand rule tells you which direction your projectile will fire.

Ok upon rereading, im still utterly baffled by the AI part, but yes, mass producing satellites on the moon and shooting them into Earth orbit or a close sun orbit via a mass driver is pretty likely in the future. We WILL be making satellites that will form the basis of a dyson swarm, and its very unlikely we will make them on Earth as almost anywhere else in the solar system is going to be easier. The moon is an excellent starting point, but in the long term the moon is primarily just going to be a refueling station for deeper space trips. Most of our soace manufacturing and shipping is going to be primarily handled in the asteroid belt, and then in the much further future there will be more people living in the Keiper belt than has ever existed on Earth.

Edit: in case its not obvious, my passion is futurology, this is literally the shit i spend all day reading and researching about every single day. My passion used to be AI but since the creation of LLMs most of the itneresting research has been sidelined.

Is that a fake tweet? If not, what is he even talking about here? Starship, a cargo rocket, is going to be delivering.... electricity.... to orbit? And we have have to ship that electricity off the moon with a rail gun/mass driver?

Exactly how does elon think electricity works? Is he planning on shipping the electrons directly, or in a convenient chemical storage tank? And if the latter, does that mean hes just loading starship with extremely heavy low energy density batteries? And wtf does AI have to do with any of this?

The solution is simple. Nuclear. If you want to go sci-fi or are willing to wait about a hundred years, well start getting solar powered satellites that beam their energy through microwaves back down to Earth, or more likely to an orbiter that massively tones it down then sends it to mulitple power farms on the ground since you dint want a cosmic microwave death ray pointing directly at Earth.

Store your valuables in a waterproof bag hidden in your toilet tank. Can't get destroyed to fire or flood.

Inside the cinder block of course

Itll be nvidia and openai primarily, id have to imagine

Jeez, you guys need to learn timing. That kind of humor isn't ok this soon after a tragedy. Just like UPS delaying my delivery of ball gags isnt ok.

Are planes not designed with a backup(the second engine, knowing the plane can fly with just one, although evidently not take off), and a backup for the backup(a second set of engines) to prevent exactly this?

I know nothing of aircraft but im guessing because it was a cargo plane and not a passenger plane they only had one layer of redundancy instead of two?

Nah if someone is pointing a gun at me, i start acting deranged. Threaten their family, tell them im going to shit in my hand and throw it at them, etc. Getting shot is way cheaper than my monthly therapy bill.

Guess im the reason sexual assault is a problem here :(

Stay away from little timmy

The simple solution here is to make the internet usable. I shouldn't have to dig through three pages of search results to find something vaguely related to what i am asking for. Not to mention, with search engines there is no way to correct them. I can tell an llm to find me something, and if it gets the wrong item, i can just tell it that and it will fix. Im not about to do mental gymnastics to figure out the perfect search query to type into google for the same result, minus the wrong item. ALL THE TIME it thinks im talking about something else, and google refuses to show me the thing i am trying to find. Yet when their llm messes up my search, i tell it it screwed up and it tries again WITHOUT SHOWING ME THE EXACT SAME WRONG RESULT

I fucking hate how unusable google has become. And dont tell me to try ddg, its just as bad. Yandex is aight for porn but thats about it. The entire internet has become completely unusable. And yeah, you can inject propaganda or artifically promote a certain companies items to the top. But you know what I hate a lot worse than being forced into buying on ecompanies item? Not being able to buy that item at all because i cant find it.

Great! I wonder why sexual assault is such an issue there? I wonder why sexual assault is such an issue here too tbh. Either way, fuck that guy

Nice bait, but I'm not going to feed into that. I guess this conversation is over, glad to see you've completely abandoned your argument after realising it was wrong. Tbh it was a lot easier to convince you than i thought, but the facts stand for themselves i suppose

Only if they lose. Also, itd be a sequel to emu war 2. They lost twice.