On October 27th, a video went out over social media that showed at least nine men sitting slumped in a row beside a dirt track in the city of El Fasher, in Sudan’s Darfur region. Their thin wrists dangle over their knees. They are exhausted and defeated, held prisoner by long-haired militiamen in camouflage slacks, one of whom brandishes a whip over his head. Another, Alfateh Abdullah Idris, who goes by the nickname Abu Lulu, casually begins firing a Kalashnikov rifle down the row of prisoners. The final man, in a last-second protective reflex, bows his head and crosses his hands over it, but bullets send him flying backward, and the other militiamen join in, firing repeatedly at the dead bodies. Abu Lulu posted the video.

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