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Fighters smirk as they move on the bed of a utility vehicle, speeding by a row of several dead bodies and heading towards the setting African sunset.

"See such accomplishment. Look at this mass destruction," a combatant cheers.

The fighter beams as he points the recording device on himself and his fellow fighters, their Rapid Support Forces insignia clearly shown: "The victims shall all be killed in this manner."

The combatants are exulting in a mass killing that humanitarian officials believe resulted in the deaths of more than two thousand civilians in the Sudanese urban center of the Darfur city during October.

A City Isolated from the World

After maintaining the community under siege for nearly 24 months, from late summer the RSF advanced to reinforce its position and blockade the surviving civilian population.

Space-based imagery reveal that fighters began to build a enormous sand wall - a elevated earthen wall - around the boundaries of el-Fasher, sealing off roads and preventing relief supplies.

During the encirclement intensified, multiple civilians were killed in an militia assault on a mosque on mid-September, while the UN stated fifty-three further were killed in drone and artillery bombardments on a refugee settlement in fall.

Disturbing Recording Shows Unarmed People Gunned Down

By sunrise on late October the paramilitary force overwhelmed the final government strongholds and took control of the main base in the community, the command center of the Military Unit, as the government forces pulled back.

One of the most graphic videos to emerge and analysed showed the consequences of a massacre at a campus structure on the western of the city, where scores lifeless forms were visible strewn throughout the ground.

An elderly person dressed in a white tunic was seated alone amongst the victims. He turned to look as a combatant equipped with a weapon walked along the steps facing the victim. lifting his weapon, the fighter discharged a solitary bullet at the individual, who dropped to the floor lifeless.

"For what reason is this individual even alive," one fighter cried. "Kill this person."

Satellite images taken on 26 October indicated to substantiate that killings were furthermore conducted on the roads of el-Fasher, as reported by a study issued by the academic research center.

A key eyewitness who provided testimony said the individual had seen "multiple of our family members being massacred - the victims were gathered in one place and each one killed."

Paramilitary Leaders Attempt to Conduct Damage Control

During the period that came after the killings, paramilitary leader acknowledged that his fighters had carried out "wrongdoings" and stated the events would be investigated.

Part of the arrested was following a investigation detailing his executions. Deliberately orchestrated and edited footage posted on the RSF's authorized Telegram channel reveal the commander being led into a cell at a prison on the perimeter of el-Fasher.

Simultaneously, the RSF and associated social media channels started trying to reframe the story.

Content showing its fighters providing supplies to inhabitants were shared by some accounts, while the militia's communications team published numerous recordings allegedly to show the humane management of government captives.

Regardless of the online campaign being deployed by the RSF, their actions in el-Fasher have generated international anger.