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Militiamen chuckle as they travel on the rear of a pick-up truck, racing by a series of nine dead bodies and moving facing the descending Sudan's sunset.

"Look at this extensive effort. Observe this mass destruction," one cheers.

The fighter grins as he turns the video equipment on his own face and his fellow fighters, their paramilitary insignia clearly shown: "They shall all die like this."

These individuals are exulting in a mass killing that relief organizations fear killed in excess of two thousand people in the Sudan's city of el-Fasher during October.

An Urban Center Severed from the Outside

Having held the urban area under siege for approximately 24 months, from late summer the militia moved to strengthen its control and restrict the surviving inhabitants.

Space-based imagery reveal that fighters began to build a immense sand wall - a raised earthen wall - surrounding the boundaries of el-Fasher, closing access routes and halting aid.

During the encirclement worsened, seventy-eight individuals were killed in an RSF assault on a mosque on 19 September, while the United Nations said 53 further were murdered in aerial and cannon attacks on a refugee settlement in the autumn.

Explicit Footage Shows Unarmed Civilians Gunned Down

At dawn on October 26th the RSF defeated the last government strongholds and took control of the main base in the city, the headquarters of the Army Division, as the army withdrew.

Perhaps the most disturbing videos to appear and analysed revealed the consequences of a atrocity at a university building on the western of the city, where scores dead bodies were seen spread throughout the ground.

An elderly individual dressed in a robe was seated by himself surrounded by the bodies. The individual rotated to look as a fighter equipped with a firearm moved down the steps facing the victim. pointing his firearm, the gunman released a one shot at the individual, who fell to the surface lifeless.

"Why is this one still alive," one combatant exclaimed. "Shoot him."

Space-based imagery taken on October 26th indicated to substantiate that executions were additionally performed on the streets of the city, according to a report released by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

A key eyewitness who communicated reported they had observed "multiple of our family members being executed - they were assembled in one place and everyone eliminated."

Militia Commanders Try to Conduct Damage Control

In the days that ensued from the massacre, paramilitary commander admitted that his fighters had committed "atrocities" and said the events would be examined.

Included among detained was after a analysis documenting his executions. Carefully staged and produced footage posted on the militia's formal Telegram account depict the commander being taken into a cell at a prison on the edges of the city.

Simultaneously, the RSF and connected digital accounts started seeking to reframe the account.

Updates showing its fighters handing out supplies to inhabitants were disseminated by various individuals, while the force's media office released multiple videos claiming to display the compassionate handling of army captives.

In spite of the online campaign being used by the militia, their conduct in el-Fasher have generated global anger.