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Fighters laugh as they ride on the rear of a pick-up truck, racing by a row of nine dead bodies and driving facing the setting Sudan's sun.

"See all this work. Look at this act of mass destruction," a fighter shouts.

The fighter smiles as he points the recording device on himself and his companion combatants, their Rapid Support Forces identification visible: "They are all going to die this way."

The combatants are celebrating a mass killing that aid workers believe killed more than two thousand civilians in the Sudanese urban center of al-Fashir in recent weeks.

A City Severed from the World

Following their control of the urban area under blockade for nearly two years, from August the paramilitary force proceeded to strengthen its position and blockade the remaining inhabitants.

Satellite images show that troops commenced to erect a massive sand wall - a built-up dirt embankment - encircling the edges of el-Fasher, blocking roads and blocking aid.

During the encirclement intensified, seventy-eight people were killed in an militia attack on a religious building on 19 September, while the UN stated 53 additional were killed in drone and cannon bombardments on a makeshift community in the autumn.

Graphic Video Depicts Weaponless People Executed

In the early morning on late October the RSF overwhelmed the last government strongholds and captured the main base in the city, the main facility of the 6th Infantry Division, as the army pulled back.

Among the most disturbing videos to surface and examined showed the consequences of a massacre at a campus structure on the west of the city, where numerous corpses were seen spread over the floor.

A senior person clad in a white tunic was seated isolated amid the victims. The individual rotated to glance as a combatant equipped with a firearm moved descending the stairs facing the victim. pointing his weapon, the fighter released a single round at the individual, who fell to the floor still.

"How come is this one yet alive," a militiaman cried. "Execute him."

Satellite images recorded on 26 October appeared to substantiate that killings were additionally performed on the roads of the city, according to a report published by the university analysis team.

An eyewitness who spoke reported he had seen "multiple of our relatives being massacred - they were assembled in a single location and all eliminated."

Militia Commanders Attempt to Carry Out Damage Control

During the period that ensued from the massacre, militia chief admitted that his troops had carried out "wrongdoings" and announced the incidents would be looked into.

Included among detained was subsequent to a analysis recording his murders. Carefully staged and modified footage posted on the paramilitary's formal Telegram account show the individual being led into a cell at a detention facility on the perimeter of el-Fasher.

Simultaneously, the militia and affiliated digital accounts began trying to reshape the account.

Updates depicting its militiamen handing out supplies to inhabitants were shared by some individuals, while the paramilitary's public relations unit published numerous videos claiming to show the compassionate handling of military prisoners of war.

In spite of the digital effort being deployed by the paramilitary, their actions in the city have provoked international anger.