Elfateh Abdullah Idris Adam (Idris), also known as “Abu Lulu,” is an RSF brigadier general who filmed himself in El-Fasher killing unarmed civilians and bragging about killing thousands. Idris interrogated, mocked, and verbally abused civilian and surrendered SAF captives, questioning them about their tribal affiliation, making them recite pro-RSF statements, and in some cases, threatening to rape them. Idris then executed the captives by shooting them with his rifle at close range while they were defenseless positions. The RSF purportedly arrested Idris for human rights abuses, although the RSF likely staged this arrest to distance themselves from the atrocities its leaders and fighters committed in El-Fasher. Idris has perpetrated the same atrocities elsewhere in Sudan, such as in March 2024 when he and other RSF fighters executed captured SAF personnel at the Al-Jili Oil Refinery, north of Khartoum, Sudan’s capital. OFAC designated Idris pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14098, “Imposing Sanctions on Certain Persons Destabilizing Sudan and Undermining the Goal of a Democratic Transition,” for being a foreign person who is responsible for, or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in, the targeting of women, children, or any other civilians through the commission of acts of violence (including killing, maiming, torture, or rape or other sexual violence), abduction, forced displacement, or attacks on schools, hospitals, religious sites, or locations where civilians are seeking refuge, or through conduct that would constitute a serious abuse or violation of human rights or a violation of international humanitarian law.
E.O. 14098 of May 4, 2023, among other things, authorizes the imposition of sanctions on foreign persons to address the situation in Sudan following the military’s seizure of power in October 2021 and the outbreak of inter-service fighting in April 2023, and to support a transition to democracy and civilian transitional government in Sudan.
