Rights group urges RSF commander to be removed from Sudan battlefield

Amnesty Worldwide demanded the removing of Speedy Assist Forces (RSF) Commander ‘Abu Lulu’ on Tuesday, citing struggle crime allegations.

Amnesty Worldwide’s Regional Director for East Africa, Tigere Chagutah, mentioned of their official demand:

It’s alarming to study he has returned to fight with none investigation into the allegations. The RSF management should take away Abu Lulu from the battlefield and from their ranks instantly, and he have to be investigated for the struggle crime of wilful killings

The rights group additionally known as for the RSF to finish assaults on civilians and permit them secure passage to depart the continuing violence.

The Sudanese military and the RSF have engaged in a civil struggle for the final three years, inflicting one of many world’s largest humanitarian crises and mass killings. Al-Fatih Abdallah Idris, also called ‘Abu Lulu’, is a Sudanese RSF commander who was arrested in late October 2025 by the RSF following world outrage from a viral video displaying him executing unarmed civilians. 

The 15 captives have been killed through the RSF’s takeover of El Fasher metropolis. A UN report said that the RSF was answerable for not less than 6,000 deaths within the two days previous the execution of the civilian captives, with 1,400 deaths reported to be on the metropolis’s escape routes. The UN’s Unbiased Worldwide Truth-Discovering Mission into Sudan’s struggle additionally concluded that the mass killings by the RSF throughout El Fasher’s takeover have been per the markers of genocide.

Reuters carried out an investigation and had a number of sources affirm that he was launched from jail and again on the battlefield. Amongst their sources, a Sudanese intelligence official and one other RSF commander witnessed him in a battlefield in Kordofan in March 2026. 

Ahmed Tugud Lisan, spokesman for the RSF-led Tasis authorities, denied Abu Lulu had been launched in a press release to Reuters, saying the declare was “unfaithful, malicious, and fully false”.