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Militiamen chuckle as they move on the back of a utility vehicle, racing alongside a line of nine lifeless forms and moving in the direction of the setting African evening sky.

"Look at all this work. See this instance of mass destruction," one exclaims.

The individual smiles as he points the video equipment on his person and his associate combatants, their paramilitary insignia visible: "The victims shall all be killed like this."

The men are exulting in a mass killing that relief organizations fear claimed the lives of over two thousand people in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher in recent weeks.

A City Cut Off from the Outside

After maintaining the community under blockade for approximately 24 months, from late summer the paramilitary force moved to reinforce its control and prevent access for the remaining inhabitants.

Orbital photography reveal that fighters began to build a massive sand wall - a built-up sand barrier - around the boundaries of al-Fashir, sealing off access routes and halting aid.

As the siege escalated, multiple individuals were murdered in an RSF assault on a religious building on September 19th, while the international organization stated fifty-three more were killed in unmanned aircraft and cannon attacks on a displacement camp in October.

Disturbing Video Depicts Weaponless Civilians Shot

In the early morning on late October the RSF overwhelmed the remaining government strongholds and captured the central base in the urban area, the main facility of the Army Division, as the army pulled back.

Among the most horrific recordings to appear and analysed depicted the aftermath of a massacre at a university building on the western of the community, where dozens dead bodies were visible spread across the area.

A senior man wearing a white tunic sat by himself amid the bodies. The individual rotated to gaze as a militiaman carrying with a rifle walked down the steps facing the victim. lifting his rifle, the gunman fired a one shot at the victim, who fell to the floor motionless.

"Why is this person still breathing," one fighter exclaimed. "Execute him."

Satellite images taken on October 26th seemed to substantiate that executions were furthermore performed on the roads of al-Fashir, according to a report published by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

An witness who communicated reported they had witnessed "many of our kin being massacred - the victims were gathered in a specific area and all murdered."

RSF Officers Attempt to Carry Out Damage Control

In the days that ensued from the massacre, militia leader admitted that his fighters had committed "wrongdoings" and said the incidents would be examined.

Part of the detained was after a report documenting his killings. Carefully staged and edited footage posted on the RSF's official Telegram account show the individual being led into a detention area at a prison on the perimeter of al-Fashir.

At the same time, the RSF and associated social media profiles began attempting to alter the narrative.

Content showing its combatants handing out supplies to civilians were circulated by several accounts, while the force's media office published numerous videos purporting to show the proper treatment of army prisoners of war.

Regardless of the social media effort being employed by the RSF, their conduct in al-Fashir have generated global condemnation.