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Fighters smirk as they travel on the bed of a pick-up truck, hurrying past a row of multiple lifeless forms and driving towards the sinking African evening sky.

"Look at this extensive accomplishment. Observe this instance of ethnic cleansing," one cheers.

He smiles as he points the video equipment on his own face and his companion combatants, their RSF badges clearly shown: "These people shall all be killed like this."

The men are celebrating a mass killing that humanitarian officials suspect killed over 2,000 individuals in the Sudanese metropolis of the Darfur city last month.

A City Cut Off from the Globe

Having held the urban area under siege for nearly two years, from August the militia moved to consolidate its dominance and restrict the surviving inhabitants.

Satellite images show that troops began to construct a immense earth barrier - a built-up sand barrier - surrounding the edges of al-Fashir, sealing off roads and blocking humanitarian assistance.

While the blockade intensified, multiple people were killed in an RSF assault on a mosque on September 19th, while the United Nations reported 53 more were killed in drone and artillery attacks on a displacement camp in the autumn.

Disturbing Video Depicts Weaponless Civilians Gunned Down

By sunrise on October 26th the paramilitary force overwhelmed the remaining government defenses and seized the central base in the urban area, the main facility of the Army Division, as the military withdrew.

Among the most horrific recordings to surface and analysed showed the consequences of a atrocity at a campus structure on the west of the urban area, where scores corpses were seen strewn throughout the ground.

A senior person dressed in a traditional garment remained isolated amongst the bodies. He looked to look as a fighter equipped with a firearm moved along the stairs facing the victim. Raising his weapon, the fighter released a solitary shot at the individual, who fell to the surface lifeless.

"For what reason is this person still living," one militiaman exclaimed. "Kill him."

Space-based imagery captured on 26 October indicated to substantiate that shootings were also conducted on the roads of al-Fashir, as reported by a report published by the university analysis team.

A key observer who spoke said the individual had observed "numerous of our kin being executed - these individuals were assembled in a specific area and all killed."

RSF Leaders Seek to Carry Out Damage Control

During the period that ensued from the atrocity, RSF chief admitted that his forces had perpetrated "atrocities" and announced the occurrences would be investigated.

Included among arrested was subsequent to a report documenting his murders. Meticulously choreographed and modified footage posted on the paramilitary's official messaging platform depict the individual being taken into a prison room at a prison on the perimeter of the city.

At the same time, the paramilitary force and affiliated digital profiles started trying to reframe the account.

Updates showing its combatants distributing assistance to civilians were disseminated by various individuals, while the paramilitary's media office published several recordings allegedly to display the humane handling of government detainees.

In spite of the social media effort being deployed by the RSF, their activities in the city have provoked worldwide outrage.