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Fighters smirk as they travel on the bed of a utility vehicle, racing by a series of multiple lifeless forms and heading towards the descending African evening sky.

"Observe all this accomplishment. See this instance of mass destruction," one cheers.

The individual smiles as he points the camera on his own face and his fellow militiamen, their Rapid Support Forces insignia visible: "These people are all going to die this way."

The men are celebrating a atrocity that relief organizations fear claimed the lives of more than two thousand individuals in the Sudan's urban center of el-Fasher last month.

An Urban Center Isolated from the Outside

Following their control of the city under encirclement for almost two years, from August the RSF proceeded to strengthen its control and blockade the remaining residents.

Space-based imagery reveal that fighters started to erect a immense earth barrier - a elevated sand barrier - around the edges of the city, closing roads and blocking relief supplies.

While the blockade intensified, multiple individuals were slain in an RSF attack on a mosque on September 19th, while the international organization stated fifty-three additional were slain in drone and artillery attacks on a makeshift community in October.

Disturbing Recording Reveals Weaponless Civilians Gunned Down

At dawn on 26 October the militia defeated the remaining government defenses and captured the main base in the community, the main facility of the Military Unit, as the army pulled back.

Among the most graphic footage to emerge and examined revealed the results of a mass killing at a campus structure on the west of the urban area, where scores lifeless forms were seen strewn across the area.

An elderly individual wearing a traditional garment sat by himself amid the bodies. The man turned to look as a fighter carrying with a rifle walked down the staircase in the direction of the victim. Raising his firearm, the gunman fired a one shot at the victim, who collapsed to the surface still.

"How come is this individual still alive," a fighter shouted. "Kill this person."

Satellite images captured on late October seemed to confirm that killings were also carried out on the streets of the city, according to a analysis published by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

A key observer who spoke stated they had witnessed "numerous of our family members getting massacred - the victims were collected in one place and all eliminated."

Paramilitary Leaders Seek to Carry Out Damage Control

In the days that followed the atrocity, RSF chief acknowledged that his fighters had carried out "atrocities" and announced the events would be looked into.

Included among apprehended was after a investigation recording his executions. Meticulously choreographed and edited recording published on the RSF's official social media channel show the commander being led into a detention area at a prison on the outskirts of the city.

At the same time, the paramilitary force and connected digital channels started attempting to reframe the narrative.

Content showing its fighters handing out assistance to civilians were shared by some accounts, while the paramilitary's communications team released numerous recordings claiming to show the proper management of military detainees.

In spite of the digital initiative being used by the paramilitary, their activities in el-Fasher have sparked international condemnation.