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Combatants laugh as they travel on the rear of a utility vehicle, speeding by a series of multiple lifeless forms and driving facing the setting Sudan's evening sky.

"See all this work. See this ethnic cleansing," a fighter shouts.

He beams as he points the video equipment on himself and his fellow fighters, their paramilitary insignia on display: "These people shall all die this way."

The combatants are celebrating a atrocity that humanitarian officials fear resulted in the deaths of more than two thousand individuals in the African city of al-Fashir last month.

An Urban Center Cut Off from the Outside

Following their control of the urban area under encirclement for nearly 24 months, from late summer the militia moved to reinforce its position and prevent access for the remaining civilian population.

Satellite images reveal that fighters started to construct a massive earth barrier - a raised sand barrier - encircling the boundaries of the city, blocking roads and preventing aid.

While the blockade escalated, 78 individuals were killed in an paramilitary attack on a mosque on September 19th, while the international organization said 53 further were killed in aerial and heavy weapon strikes on a makeshift community in fall.

Disturbing Video Reveals Weaponless People Executed

By sunrise on October 26th the RSF defeated the last government positions and captured the primary headquarters in the city, the main facility of the Military Unit, as the army retreated.

Among the most graphic videos to surface and analysed revealed the aftermath of a atrocity at a campus structure on the western side of the community, where numerous dead bodies were seen spread across the area.

An elderly individual wearing a white tunic sat isolated amid the victims. The individual rotated to look as a militiaman armed with a firearm proceeded along the staircase facing the individual. Raising his rifle, the shooter released a single round at the victim, who fell to the floor motionless.

"How come is this one even living," a fighter cried. "Kill this one."

Satellite images recorded on late October seemed to confirm that killings were furthermore conducted on the streets of el-Fasher, as reported by a analysis issued by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

An eyewitness who provided testimony reported they had witnessed "many of our relatives being killed - the victims were assembled in a single location and all murdered."

RSF Officers Seek to Conduct Damage Control

During the period that ensued from the atrocity, RSF commander acknowledged that his forces had committed "wrongdoings" and said the events would be looked into.

Among those detained was following a report detailing his killings. Deliberately orchestrated and edited recording published on the paramilitary's formal social media channel show the individual being escorted into a prison room at a jail on the edges of al-Fashir.

Simultaneously, the RSF and associated online profiles began attempting to reshape the narrative.

Posts presenting its fighters providing aid to civilians were circulated by some individuals, while the force's communications team published numerous recordings claiming to demonstrate the humane treatment of army prisoners of war.

Regardless of the online effort being deployed by the paramilitary, their activities in al-Fashir have provoked global outrage.