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Fighters chuckle as they ride on the back of a pick-up truck, speeding alongside a row of multiple corpses and moving towards the setting African sunset.

"Observe such work. Look at this mass destruction," one shouts.

The fighter grins as he directs the recording device on his person and his fellow militiamen, their Rapid Support Forces insignia clearly shown: "These people are all going to be killed this way."

The men are celebrating a massacre that relief organizations believe resulted in the deaths of in excess of 2,000 people in the Sudan's city of al-Fashir last month.

A City Cut Off from the Outside

After maintaining the city under blockade for approximately two years, from the summer the militia proceeded to consolidate its control and prevent access for the surviving inhabitants.

Space-based imagery show that troops started to build a immense earth barrier - a raised sand barrier - surrounding the boundaries of al-Fashir, sealing off roads and halting aid.

During the encirclement worsened, 78 people were killed in an RSF attack on a mosque on 19 September, while the international organization said 53 more were killed in aerial and cannon attacks on a displacement camp in October.

Graphic Video Depicts Weaponless Civilians Shot

At dawn on 26 October the militia defeated the final army defenses and seized the primary headquarters in the urban area, the main facility of the Military Unit, as the government forces retreated.

Perhaps the most horrific videos to surface and examined depicted the results of a mass killing at a educational facility on the western side of the city, where dozens corpses were visible spread over the ground.

An older man dressed in a white tunic sat alone amongst the victims. The individual turned to gaze as a combatant armed with a rifle proceeded along the stairs facing the victim. pointing his rifle, the fighter released a single round at the man, who collapsed to the ground lifeless.

"For what reason is this person yet alive," another combatant exclaimed. "Shoot this person."

Orbital photography captured on October 26th seemed to confirm that shootings were furthermore carried out on the roads of el-Fasher, according to a analysis released by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

An observer who communicated said he had seen "multiple of our kin being killed - the victims were collected in a specific area and each one killed."

RSF Commanders Seek to Implement Damage Control

Following the events that came after the killings, paramilitary commander acknowledged that his fighters had committed "atrocities" and said the occurrences would be investigated.

Among those detained was after a analysis detailing his killings. Deliberately orchestrated and edited footage shared on the paramilitary's formal Telegram channel show him being led into a prison room at a detention facility on the perimeter of el-Fasher.

Simultaneously, the militia and connected social media accounts started attempting to reshape the account.

Posts showing its militiamen distributing aid to inhabitants were disseminated by various users, while the force's public relations unit shared multiple videos purporting to show the humane treatment of army detainees.

Despite the digital campaign being employed by the militia, their activities in el-Fasher have provoked worldwide condemnation.