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Combatants smirk as they ride on the back of a pick-up truck, speeding alongside a series of multiple corpses and moving towards the sinking Sudanese evening sky.

"Observe this extensive accomplishment. See this instance of genocide," one shouts.

The fighter grins as he directs the video equipment on his person and his companion militiamen, their RSF badges clearly shown: "They will all be killed in this manner."

The combatants are exulting in a massacre that relief organizations suspect resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 individuals in the African city of el-Fasher during October.

A City Cut Off from the Outside

Having held the city under encirclement for almost two years, from late summer the militia moved to consolidate its control and prevent access for the surviving residents.

Satellite images demonstrate that forces started to build a massive berm - a elevated earthen wall - around the perimeter of the city, blocking entry points and blocking aid.

During the encirclement intensified, 78 people were killed in an RSF strike on a religious building on September 19th, while the United Nations reported 53 additional were slain in aerial and artillery attacks on a makeshift community in fall.

Graphic Footage Reveals Weaponless Individuals Executed

By sunrise on late October the militia conquered the final military positions and seized the primary compound in the city, the command center of the Army Division, as the government forces withdrew.

Among the most horrific footage to surface and studied revealed the consequences of a atrocity at a educational facility on the western of the community, where dozens lifeless forms were visible strewn across the floor.

An elderly man clad in a robe was seated alone amongst the victims. He rotated to look as a militiaman equipped with a rifle moved along the stairs facing him. Raising his firearm, the gunman released a single bullet at the man, who fell to the surface lifeless.

"How come is this individual still breathing," one combatant exclaimed. "Execute him."

Satellite images captured on late October indicated to substantiate that shootings were furthermore conducted on the roads of el-Fasher, based on a analysis published by the academic research center.

A key eyewitness who communicated stated he had witnessed "multiple of our kin getting executed - the victims were gathered in one place and each one killed."

Militia Leaders Seek to Implement Damage Control

Following the events that followed the killings, RSF commander acknowledged that his troops had perpetrated "atrocities" and said the incidents would be looked into.

Among those arrested was after a report recording his executions. Meticulously orchestrated and modified video posted on the paramilitary's official Telegram account depict the individual being led into a cell at a jail on the edges of the city.

Meanwhile, the paramilitary force and affiliated social media accounts started attempting to reframe the story.

Updates depicting its fighters providing supplies to residents were circulated by various users, while the militia's communications team released numerous recordings claiming to show the compassionate treatment of army captives.

Regardless of the social media initiative being deployed by the militia, their conduct in al-Fashir have generated international condemnation.