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Fighters chuckle as they ride on the back of a transport truck, racing past a line of nine corpses and driving towards the sinking African sun.

"Observe such accomplishment. Observe this mass destruction," one shouts.

The fighter smiles as he turns the recording device on his own face and his fellow militiamen, their paramilitary badges visible: "The victims will all be killed like this."

The men are celebrating a mass killing that relief organizations suspect killed more than 2,000 civilians in the African metropolis of al-Fashir during October.

A Community Severed from the Outside

After maintaining the city under siege for nearly 24 months, from August the RSF moved to strengthen its control and blockade the leftover residents.

Space-based imagery show that forces started to build a massive berm - a built-up sand barrier - surrounding the boundaries of el-Fasher, blocking access routes and blocking relief supplies.

While the blockade escalated, multiple people were murdered in an paramilitary strike on a religious building on September 19th, while the UN reported 53 further were slain in aerial and heavy weapon bombardments on a displacement camp in October.

Explicit Video Depicts Weaponless People Executed

By sunrise on late October the paramilitary force conquered the last military strongholds and captured the primary compound in the community, the headquarters of the 6th Infantry Division, as the government forces pulled back.

One of the most disturbing footage to appear and analysed revealed the aftermath of a atrocity at a campus structure on the west of the community, where dozens lifeless forms were visible strewn across the area.

A senior person wearing a white tunic remained isolated surrounded by the victims. The individual turned to gaze as a combatant armed with a rifle walked along the stairs in the direction of the individual. pointing his weapon, the shooter fired a single bullet at the victim, who collapsed to the ground motionless.

"For what reason is this one still breathing," a fighter shouted. "Shoot this one."

Space-based imagery recorded on late October indicated to verify that killings were furthermore conducted on the roads of el-Fasher, according to a analysis issued by the academic research center.

A key witness who provided testimony reported he had seen "numerous of our relatives being executed - they were gathered in one place and all eliminated."

Militia Commanders Seek to Implement Reputation Management

During the period that ensued from the killings, paramilitary leader acknowledged that his forces had perpetrated "wrongdoings" and announced the incidents would be looked into.

Among those arrested was subsequent to a report recording his murders. Carefully staged and modified video posted on the paramilitary's authorized Telegram account show the commander being taken into a prison room at a prison on the outskirts of al-Fashir.

Meanwhile, the RSF and associated digital accounts started trying to reshape the account.

Updates depicting its fighters distributing supplies to civilians were circulated by various accounts, while the militia's communications team shared several clips allegedly to show the proper management of government prisoners of war.

Despite the digital initiative being used by the RSF, their activities in al-Fashir have generated international condemnation.