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Fighters smirk as they move on the bed of a transport truck, speeding by a row of multiple dead bodies and moving towards the sinking Sudan's sun.

"See such accomplishment. Look at this act of genocide," a fighter exclaims.

The fighter beams as he points the camera on his own face and his companion militiamen, their paramilitary badges visible: "The victims shall all perish in this manner."

The men are rejoicing over a mass killing that humanitarian officials fear claimed the lives of more than thousands of people in the African metropolis of the Darfur city last month.

A City Isolated from the Outside

Following their control of the city under encirclement for nearly an extended period, from August the RSF advanced to consolidate its control and blockade the surviving civilian population.

Satellite images show that troops started to erect a enormous sand wall - a elevated dirt embankment - surrounding the boundaries of the city, sealing off entry points and halting aid.

As the siege escalated, 78 civilians were killed in an militia assault on a religious building on 19 September, while the UN reported 53 additional were killed in aerial and artillery bombardments on a makeshift community in fall.

Graphic Recording Reveals Weaponless Civilians Executed

By sunrise on 26 October the militia overwhelmed the final government strongholds and seized the central base in the urban area, the headquarters of the 6th Infantry Division, as the army withdrew.

One of the most horrific recordings to surface and analysed depicted the aftermath of a mass killing at a educational facility on the west of the community, where scores dead bodies were observed scattered throughout the area.

An older man dressed in a white tunic remained isolated surrounded by the corpses. He looked to look as a combatant carrying with a rifle walked descending the staircase in the direction of the individual. lifting his weapon, the gunman fired a single round at the man, who dropped to the floor motionless.

"Why is this individual yet breathing," one fighter cried. "Execute this one."

Space-based imagery captured on late October indicated to confirm that executions were furthermore performed on the thoroughfares of al-Fashir, based on a analysis published by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

A key witness who communicated said they had witnessed "multiple of our kin being killed - these individuals were collected in one place and each one killed."

RSF Commanders Try to Conduct Public Relations

Following the events that followed the massacre, RSF leader conceded that his fighters had carried out "wrongdoings" and stated the incidents would be looked into.

Part of the apprehended was after a investigation recording his murders. Meticulously staged and edited video posted on the paramilitary's formal social media account depict the individual being escorted into a cell at a prison on the perimeter of al-Fashir.

Simultaneously, the paramilitary force and connected digital accounts started trying to reframe the story.

Content showing its combatants handing out assistance to inhabitants were shared by some accounts, while the force's media office released multiple videos purporting to show the humane management of army prisoners of war.

Regardless of the online campaign being employed by the militia, their activities in al-Fashir have provoked international anger.