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Fighters laugh as they ride on the bed of a transport truck, hurrying by a row of multiple corpses and heading facing the descending African evening sky.

"Observe such effort. Observe this ethnic cleansing," one cheers.

He smiles as he turns the video equipment on his person and his associate fighters, their Rapid Support Forces insignia on display: "They shall all be killed this way."

These individuals are exulting in a massacre that aid workers fear killed over two thousand civilians in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher in recent weeks.

An Urban Center Cut Off from the World

After maintaining the urban area under siege for nearly two years, from August the RSF moved to strengthen its position and blockade the remaining civilian population.

Satellite images show that troops began to construct a immense sand wall - a raised sand barrier - around the edges of the city, blocking entry points and blocking aid.

As the siege worsened, multiple people were killed in an RSF strike on a mosque on September 19th, while the UN reported 53 further were slain in aerial and artillery strikes on a makeshift community in fall.

Graphic Recording Reveals Unarmed People Gunned Down

By sunrise on 26 October the RSF overwhelmed the last government strongholds and seized the central base in the community, the headquarters of the Military Unit, as the military retreated.

Among the most horrific footage to emerge and examined showed the results of a mass killing at a university building on the western side of the community, where numerous dead bodies were visible spread throughout the ground.

An older person dressed in a traditional garment sat alone surrounded by the bodies. The man rotated to glance as a militiaman carrying with a weapon proceeded descending the staircase facing him. pointing his weapon, the shooter discharged a single bullet at the individual, who fell to the floor lifeless.

"Why is this person even living," another militiaman exclaimed. "Execute this person."

Space-based imagery captured on late October appeared to substantiate that executions were furthermore conducted on the roads of the city, according to a report issued by the university analysis team.

A key eyewitness who communicated stated he had witnessed "numerous of our family members being executed - these individuals were collected in one place and everyone killed."

RSF Officers Try to Carry Out Damage Control

Following the events that came after the massacre, militia leader acknowledged that his fighters had committed "atrocities" and stated the incidents would be looked into.

Among those detained was after a investigation recording his killings. Meticulously choreographed and edited recording posted on the militia's authorized social media platform show the commander being led into a cell at a detention facility on the outskirts of al-Fashir.

At the same time, the militia and connected online profiles commenced attempting to reframe the story.

Posts presenting its combatants distributing assistance to residents were disseminated by some accounts, while the militia's public relations unit published numerous videos claiming to demonstrate the humane handling of military detainees.

Regardless of the online effort being used by the RSF, their activities in el-Fasher have provoked worldwide outrage.