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Fighters smirk as they ride on the bed of a pick-up truck, speeding by a line of nine dead bodies and driving towards the descending African sunset.

"See such work. See this ethnic cleansing," a combatant cheers.

He grins as he points the recording device on his person and his associate combatants, their Rapid Support Forces identification visible: "They are all going to perish this way."

The combatants are rejoicing over a atrocity that aid workers believe resulted in the deaths of over two thousand individuals in the Sudanese metropolis of al-Fashir in recent weeks.

A Community Cut Off from the World

Following their control of the urban area under siege for approximately 24 months, from the summer the militia moved to reinforce its dominance and blockade the leftover inhabitants.

Satellite images demonstrate that fighters commenced to erect a immense berm - a raised dirt embankment - surrounding the edges of al-Fashir, sealing off roads and blocking relief supplies.

As the siege worsened, seventy-eight people were slain in an paramilitary assault on a place of worship on mid-September, while the UN reported dozens further were killed in aerial and cannon strikes on a displacement camp in October.

Explicit Recording Depicts Defenseless Civilians Shot

At dawn on October 26th the RSF conquered the last military strongholds and took control of the primary compound in the urban area, the command center of the 6th Infantry Division, as the military pulled back.

Perhaps the most graphic videos to surface and analysed showed the consequences of a mass killing at a university building on the western of the community, where scores dead bodies were visible spread across the floor.

An elderly man clad in a robe remained isolated surrounded by the corpses. The individual looked to gaze as a militiaman armed with a rifle walked down the steps facing him. lifting his weapon, the fighter discharged a one bullet at the victim, who dropped to the surface lifeless.

"Why is this individual still living," another combatant shouted. "Execute this one."

Space-based imagery recorded on October 26th seemed to confirm that executions were also carried out on the streets of el-Fasher, based on a study issued by the academic research center.

One eyewitness who spoke reported they had observed "numerous of our relatives being executed - these individuals were collected in one place and everyone killed."

RSF Officers Try to Implement Public Relations

Following the events that followed the killings, militia leader acknowledged that his troops had carried out "violations" and announced the events would be investigated.

Included among detained was after a investigation detailing his executions. Deliberately orchestrated and produced video posted on the paramilitary's official social media channel depict the commander being led into a cell at a detention facility on the perimeter of al-Fashir.

Simultaneously, the militia and associated digital accounts began trying to reframe the account.

Updates showing its militiamen handing out aid to civilians were disseminated by various users, while the paramilitary's communications team shared multiple recordings claiming to demonstrate the humane treatment of government captives.

Regardless of the online effort being employed by the militia, their actions in the city have provoked global anger.