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Fighters smirk as they travel on the bed of a pick-up truck, hurrying by a series of multiple lifeless forms and heading facing the sinking Sudan's evening sky.

"Look at all this effort. Look at this ethnic cleansing," one cheers.

He grins as he turns the video equipment on his own face and his associate combatants, their RSF identification clearly shown: "The victims are all going to die like this."

These individuals are rejoicing over a massacre that relief organizations suspect killed over 2,000 civilians in the Sudan's metropolis of al-Fashir during October.

An Urban Center Isolated from the Outside

Having held the community under siege for nearly 24 months, from August the militia proceeded to consolidate its position and prevent access for the surviving inhabitants.

Space-based imagery reveal that forces commenced to build a immense earth barrier - a elevated sand barrier - encircling the edges of el-Fasher, sealing off access routes and preventing aid.

During the encirclement intensified, multiple civilians were murdered in an militia assault on a religious building on 19 September, while the international organization stated 53 additional were killed in drone and heavy weapon strikes on a displacement camp in fall.

Graphic Recording Reveals Defenseless Individuals Gunned Down

In the early morning on October 26th the RSF overwhelmed the final army positions and captured the primary compound in the community, the headquarters of the 6th Infantry Division, as the army retreated.

Among the most horrific footage to appear and examined depicted the aftermath of a atrocity at a campus structure on the western of the community, where numerous dead bodies were visible strewn throughout the floor.

An older person dressed in a robe was seated isolated amid the corpses. The man rotated to look as a militiaman armed with a weapon proceeded descending the steps towards the victim. Raising his rifle, the shooter discharged a single bullet at the individual, who dropped to the ground lifeless.

"Why is this one still living," another combatant exclaimed. "Shoot this person."

Satellite images captured on October 26th seemed to confirm that executions were additionally carried out on the streets of the city, as reported by a study issued by the academic research center.

An observer who provided testimony said the individual had observed "multiple of our family members being massacred - these individuals were gathered in a specific area and everyone killed."

Paramilitary Officers Try to Implement Reputation Management

Following the events that ensued from the killings, RSF chief admitted that his troops had committed "wrongdoings" and announced the events would be investigated.

Included among arrested was following a report documenting his executions. Carefully choreographed and produced video posted on the militia's official Telegram account show him being escorted into a prison room at a prison on the outskirts of el-Fasher.

Meanwhile, the paramilitary force and affiliated online channels started trying to alter the narrative.

Posts showing its fighters providing aid to civilians were circulated by various accounts, while the paramilitary's media office released multiple recordings purporting to show the humane management of military captives.

In spite of the social media effort being used by the RSF, their actions in al-Fashir have generated international condemnation.