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Fighters laugh as they travel on the back of a pick-up truck, speeding by a series of several dead bodies and moving in the direction of the setting Sudan's sunset.

"Look at all this accomplishment. Look at this instance of ethnic cleansing," one exclaims.

The fighter smiles as he turns the camera on himself and his associate combatants, their RSF identification clearly shown: "These people will all die in this manner."

The men are celebrating a massacre that relief organizations fear claimed the lives of more than thousands of people in the Sudan's city of the Darfur city in recent weeks.

A Community Cut Off from the World

Having held the urban area under encirclement for nearly 24 months, from late summer the RSF moved to strengthen its position and blockade the surviving residents.

Satellite images demonstrate that fighters commenced to construct a massive sand wall - a elevated sand barrier - surrounding the boundaries of the city, sealing off roads and preventing aid.

As the siege escalated, seventy-eight individuals were killed in an RSF attack on a mosque on September 19th, while the UN reported 53 further were slain in drone and artillery attacks on a makeshift community in October.

Explicit Recording Shows Weaponless Civilians Gunned Down

By sunrise on late October the RSF conquered the final military defenses and captured the primary compound in the city, the main facility of the Military Unit, as the military pulled back.

Among the most graphic recordings to appear and examined revealed the consequences of a massacre at a campus structure on the western side of the urban area, where numerous dead bodies were observed spread throughout the ground.

An elderly man dressed in a traditional garment sat isolated amongst the bodies. He looked to glance as a militiaman equipped with a firearm moved down the steps facing the individual. pointing his rifle, the gunman released a solitary round at the victim, who dropped to the floor lifeless.

"How come is this individual still breathing," one fighter cried. "Shoot this one."

Satellite images taken on October 26th seemed to substantiate that shootings were additionally performed on the thoroughfares of the city, based on a study published by the academic research center.

One eyewitness who provided testimony said they had seen "multiple of our relatives being massacred - these individuals were collected in a specific area and everyone eliminated."

Militia Commanders Attempt to Conduct Damage Control

During the period that followed the atrocity, RSF leader conceded that his forces had committed "wrongdoings" and announced the occurrences would be looked into.

Part of the arrested was following a report recording his killings. Carefully staged and modified footage published on the militia's official messaging channel show the individual being escorted into a prison room at a prison on the perimeter of the city.

Simultaneously, the paramilitary force and associated online channels began seeking to reframe the narrative.

Posts presenting its combatants distributing supplies to residents were shared by several users, while the force's public relations unit released multiple clips purporting to demonstrate the proper management of government captives.

In spite of the online initiative being employed by the paramilitary, their conduct in el-Fasher have generated international outrage.