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Fighters laugh as they move on the back of a pick-up truck, racing by a line of several corpses and heading towards the sinking African sun.

"Observe all this work. Look at this ethnic cleansing," a combatant shouts.

He smiles as he points the recording device on himself and his companion fighters, their RSF badges visible: "The victims are all going to be killed in this manner."

The combatants are rejoicing over a atrocity that aid workers suspect killed more than two thousand people in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher during October.

A Community Severed from the Outside

Following their control of the urban area under blockade for almost an extended period, from August the paramilitary force advanced to consolidate its dominance and prevent access for the surviving civilian population.

Satellite images show that fighters started to construct a massive berm - a elevated sand barrier - surrounding the boundaries of al-Fashir, closing roads and halting humanitarian assistance.

During the encirclement escalated, seventy-eight people were slain in an RSF assault on a religious building on 19 September, while the United Nations said dozens more were slain in aerial and cannon attacks on a makeshift community in October.

Explicit Footage Depicts Weaponless Civilians Shot

At dawn on October 26th the RSF overwhelmed the last military strongholds and seized the central headquarters in the urban area, the main facility of the Military Unit, as the army pulled back.

Among the most graphic recordings to emerge and analysed depicted the aftermath of a mass killing at a campus structure on the west of the city, where dozens lifeless forms were observed spread throughout the area.

An elderly man clad in a traditional garment sat alone amongst the victims. The individual looked to look as a fighter equipped with a rifle moved along the stairs facing him. pointing his weapon, the gunman released a one shot at the man, who collapsed to the floor still.

"For what reason is this one even breathing," another fighter shouted. "Kill him."

Orbital photography recorded on 26 October seemed to confirm that executions were also carried out on the streets of al-Fashir, as reported by a report issued by the university analysis team.

An eyewitness who communicated stated he had seen "many of our relatives getting executed - these individuals were collected in a single location and all eliminated."

Militia Officers Seek to Conduct Reputation Management

Following the events that came after the massacre, militia commander acknowledged that his troops had carried out "violations" and said the incidents would be examined.

Part of the arrested was after a report recording his executions. Meticulously choreographed and produced recording shared on the paramilitary's official Telegram account depict the commander being taken into a cell at a prison on the perimeter of the city.

Simultaneously, the militia and connected online profiles started trying to alter the narrative.

Content presenting its combatants providing aid to residents were disseminated by several users, while the force's public relations unit published multiple clips claiming to display the compassionate management of army detainees.

In spite of the digital initiative being used by the paramilitary, their actions in el-Fasher have generated worldwide condemnation.