Trigger Warning: Descriptions of Graphic Violence When the Sudanese military captured Wad Madani last month, they rounded up people of certain ethnicities and massacred them. In one incident, for example, they blindfolded and tied the hands of seven teenagers (unarmed boys in civilian clothes), then they cut their throats. I know this because they filmed their dying moments. It is too horrific to share this video here. This is the epitome of evil: murdering children. The suffering of these boys was unimaginable. The worst part of the video is the sound, the gasping for breath. As the life drained out from their open throats, their killers kicked dirt on them and hurled slurs and insults at them. In another incident, SAF shot dead 65-70 unarmed men in a single location. It's unclear if these men were civilians, ex-combatants who had surrendered, suspected "collaborators," etc. Whatever the case, they were unarmed and wearing civilian clothes. These are just two of many incidents that took place throughout the city of Wad Madani and the wider area. Yet every day I read on this platform that the Sudanese Armed Forces are a glorious liberating force, that peace and negotiations are not the answer, that negotiating an end to the conflict is impossible, that the anti-war civilian opposition are evil and untrustworthy, that the Rapid Support Forces are monsters compared to the disciplined, holy, and legitimate Sudanese military. This is nonsense. Both sides are systematically and consistently perpetrating war crimes, ignoring both Sudanese national laws and international norms. Unfortunately, it seems that the most viral influencers on Twitter/X are warmongers who justify the ongoing horrific violence, beat the drum of war, and promote a black-and-white framing of this conflict, which does not accurately reflect the moral or political or military realities of what's actually happening. It is virtually certain that SAF will continue to commit such crimes as the war continues. The RSF, likewise, has committed horrific crimes and will continue to do so. I strongly urge journalists, diplomats, human rights monitors, activists, political analysts and researchers not to be deceived by the triumphalist, misleading narratives that portray one side in this conflict as holy and righteous, and demonize and dehumanize the other side completely. Remember, you cannot trust the propagandists. Their narratives are false, their facts are false or exaggerated, their rhetoric is misleading, and they have no solutions. Stop following them, engaging with them, sharing them, and relying on them for "information." You will be misled. One lie that I hear consistently is that the war will end soon. The SAF slogan is "Allah's victory is coming, and the conquest is near" (نصر من الله وفتح قريب). This is a citation of Quran 61:13. Obviously, the idea is that God is on their side, and that He ordains this holy war. I don't believe that the war will end any time soon. Even if the Sudanese military "liberates" Khartoum sometime in the coming weeks or months, the war will simply shift into Kordofan, Darfur, and possibly even South Sudan (or border areas), where SAF already waged decades of unrelenting and brutal war, unsuccessfully trying to force a "military solution" on a country that is too vast and too diverse to be ruled by brute force.