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Combatants chuckle as they travel on the rear of a pick-up truck, racing alongside a row of multiple dead bodies and heading towards the descending African evening sky.

"See this extensive effort. Observe this ethnic cleansing," a fighter exclaims.

He smiles as he turns the recording device on his own face and his associate militiamen, their Rapid Support Forces identification on display: "The victims are all going to be killed in this manner."

These individuals are celebrating a mass killing that relief organizations believe claimed the lives of more than two thousand people in the Sudan's urban center of the Darfur city in recent weeks.

An Urban Center Isolated from the World

Following their control of the city under encirclement for nearly two years, from late summer the militia proceeded to reinforce its dominance and prevent access for the remaining inhabitants.

Satellite images reveal that fighters started to build a immense earth barrier - a raised earthen wall - encircling the boundaries of al-Fashir, closing access routes and halting humanitarian assistance.

While the blockade worsened, seventy-eight civilians were murdered in an paramilitary attack on a mosque on 19 September, while the United Nations said dozens additional were slain in aerial and heavy weapon attacks on a refugee settlement in the autumn.

Graphic Recording Shows Defenseless People Gunned Down

In the early morning on late October the paramilitary force conquered the last military strongholds and took control of the main base in the city, the command center of the Military Unit, as the military withdrew.

Perhaps the most disturbing recordings to appear and analysed revealed the consequences of a massacre at a educational facility on the west of the city, where dozens dead bodies were visible scattered across the ground.

An older individual clad in a robe remained by himself surrounded by the bodies. The individual turned to gaze as a militiaman equipped with a firearm proceeded down the stairs facing the individual. pointing his weapon, the fighter released a one bullet at the victim, who dropped to the surface motionless.

"Why is this person yet alive," one militiaman exclaimed. "Shoot this one."

Orbital photography recorded on October 26th appeared to verify that killings were also carried out on the streets of el-Fasher, as reported by a report issued by the academic research center.

An eyewitness who communicated reported he had observed "numerous of our relatives being massacred - these individuals were assembled in one place and everyone killed."

RSF Commanders Attempt to Implement Damage Control

During the period that came after the killings, militia chief acknowledged that his fighters had committed "violations" and stated the occurrences would be looked into.

Part of the apprehended was subsequent to a investigation recording his murders. Carefully orchestrated and produced recording published on the RSF's formal social media platform depict him being taken into a prison room at a detention facility on the perimeter of al-Fashir.

Meanwhile, the paramilitary force and associated online channels commenced trying to reframe the account.

Updates depicting its militiamen handing out supplies to inhabitants were disseminated by several accounts, while the force's public relations unit released multiple recordings purporting to show the humane handling of army captives.

Regardless of the social media effort being used by the RSF, their activities in el-Fasher have sparked global outrage.