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Militiamen chuckle as they travel on the back of a pick-up truck, hurrying alongside a series of multiple corpses and moving towards the descending Sudanese sunset.

"Observe all this work. Observe this instance of genocide," a combatant shouts.

The individual grins as he points the camera on his person and his associate fighters, their RSF identification clearly shown: "The victims shall all be killed this way."

The men are celebrating a massacre that humanitarian officials fear killed in excess of two thousand people in the Sudan's city of the Darfur city in recent weeks.

A City Isolated from the World

Having held the urban area under blockade for nearly two years, from late summer the RSF proceeded to reinforce its position and prevent access for the leftover residents.

Orbital photography show that fighters started to build a immense earth barrier - a raised sand barrier - surrounding the edges of the city, blocking roads and halting relief supplies.

While the blockade escalated, seventy-eight civilians were slain in an militia assault on a religious building on September 19th, while the United Nations reported 53 more were killed in drone and heavy weapon strikes on a refugee settlement in October.

Graphic Footage Shows Defenseless Civilians Shot

By sunrise on late October the paramilitary force overwhelmed the last army strongholds and seized the central base in the community, the command center of the Army Division, as the government forces retreated.

Perhaps the most horrific footage to appear and examined depicted the results of a mass killing at a educational facility on the western of the community, where scores lifeless forms were seen spread across the area.

An older person dressed in a white tunic was seated by himself surrounded by the corpses. He looked to look as a militiaman carrying with a firearm moved down the staircase in the direction of him. Raising his rifle, the shooter fired a solitary round at the man, who dropped to the floor motionless.

"For what reason is this one still breathing," one fighter cried. "Execute this one."

Space-based imagery captured on late October seemed to confirm that shootings were additionally carried out on the thoroughfares of al-Fashir, based on a analysis released by the university analysis team.

One witness who spoke said he had seen "numerous of our family members getting killed - the victims were gathered in a specific area and all eliminated."

RSF Commanders Attempt to Carry Out Public Relations

In the days that followed the killings, militia leader acknowledged that his forces had committed "wrongdoings" and said the events would be examined.

Included among detained was following a report detailing his killings. Carefully choreographed and produced video posted on the paramilitary's formal messaging account depict the commander being taken into a cell at a jail on the perimeter of al-Fashir.

Simultaneously, the RSF and connected online channels commenced trying to reframe the narrative.

Posts presenting its combatants providing aid to residents were shared by various users, while the force's public relations unit released several clips claiming to display the proper management of government prisoners of war.

Despite the online campaign being employed by the militia, their activities in el-Fasher have sparked international outrage.