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Militiamen chuckle as they move on the bed of a transport truck, racing alongside a row of nine lifeless forms and moving in the direction of the sinking Sudan's sun.

"Observe all this effort. Look at this act of mass destruction," one shouts.

The individual beams as he points the video equipment on his own face and his associate combatants, their RSF badges on display: "The victims are all going to be killed this way."

The combatants are exulting in a atrocity that humanitarian officials fear killed over two thousand people in the African urban center of al-Fashir last month.

An Urban Center Cut Off from the World

After maintaining the city under blockade for almost two years, from August the RSF advanced to reinforce its dominance and prevent access for the remaining civilian population.

Satellite images demonstrate that fighters started to erect a massive sand wall - a built-up dirt embankment - surrounding the perimeter of el-Fasher, closing roads and preventing humanitarian assistance.

During the encirclement worsened, seventy-eight people were killed in an paramilitary attack on a mosque on 19 September, while the UN reported fifty-three additional were killed in aerial and artillery attacks on a makeshift community in fall.

Explicit Footage Shows Defenseless Civilians Gunned Down

By sunrise on 26 October the RSF overwhelmed the final army strongholds and seized the main headquarters in the community, the command center of the 6th Infantry Division, as the military pulled back.

Perhaps the most disturbing footage to appear and studied revealed the results of a atrocity at a university building on the western of the urban area, where scores dead bodies were visible spread throughout the ground.

An older man wearing a robe remained isolated amongst the corpses. The individual rotated to glance as a militiaman equipped with a rifle moved down the steps towards the individual. pointing his rifle, the gunman released a single round at the individual, who collapsed to the surface still.

"How come is this one still living," a militiaman exclaimed. "Execute this one."

Satellite images taken on October 26th indicated to confirm that shootings were furthermore carried out on the thoroughfares of al-Fashir, as reported by a analysis released by the university analysis team.

A key eyewitness who provided testimony said the individual had observed "numerous of our family members getting massacred - the victims were gathered in a single location and everyone eliminated."

Paramilitary Commanders Try to Implement Reputation Management

Following the events that came after the massacre, paramilitary chief admitted that his troops had carried out "wrongdoings" and stated the incidents would be investigated.

Part of the apprehended was after a report detailing his killings. Carefully choreographed and edited recording shared on the militia's authorized social media account show him being escorted into a detention area at a detention facility on the perimeter of the city.

Meanwhile, the RSF and connected online channels began seeking to reshape the story.

Updates showing its combatants handing out assistance to inhabitants were disseminated by various individuals, while the force's communications team published multiple clips allegedly to show the proper handling of military prisoners of war.

Despite the digital campaign being employed by the paramilitary, their activities in the city have provoked worldwide condemnation.