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Militiamen smirk as they move on the rear of a transport truck, racing alongside a line of several corpses and heading towards the sinking African evening sky.

"See such effort. Look at this ethnic cleansing," a fighter cheers.

The individual grins as he directs the camera on himself and his companion militiamen, their Rapid Support Forces identification clearly shown: "These people will all die in this manner."

The men are celebrating a massacre that humanitarian officials believe resulted in the deaths of in excess of 2,000 individuals in the Sudanese metropolis of the Darfur city during October.

An Urban Center Cut Off from the World

Following their control of the community under encirclement for approximately 24 months, from August the militia advanced to reinforce its position and restrict the surviving inhabitants.

Satellite images demonstrate that forces started to construct a immense berm - a elevated dirt embankment - surrounding the perimeter of al-Fashir, closing entry points and blocking humanitarian assistance.

During the encirclement worsened, seventy-eight civilians were murdered in an militia strike on a religious building on 19 September, while the UN reported dozens more were slain in unmanned aircraft and cannon attacks on a makeshift community in October.

Graphic Recording Shows Weaponless Individuals Shot

In the early morning on 26 October the paramilitary force overwhelmed the last military positions and seized the central base in the community, the main facility of the 6th Infantry Division, as the military withdrew.

Perhaps the most graphic recordings to emerge and studied showed the results of a atrocity at a educational facility on the western of the urban area, where numerous dead bodies were visible spread over the area.

An elderly individual clad in a white tunic was seated by himself surrounded by the corpses. He turned to gaze as a fighter carrying with a firearm proceeded along the staircase towards him. Raising his weapon, the fighter discharged a single shot at the victim, who dropped to the ground still.

"How come is this person still alive," another militiaman exclaimed. "Kill this person."

Orbital photography recorded on October 26th seemed to verify that killings were furthermore carried out on the thoroughfares of al-Fashir, based on a study published by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

A key eyewitness who spoke reported he had witnessed "many of our family members getting executed - they were collected in one place and all murdered."

Militia Leaders Seek to Conduct Damage Control

During the period that came after the atrocity, RSF leader conceded that his forces had committed "violations" and said the occurrences would be looked into.

Part of the detained was following a analysis detailing his murders. Deliberately choreographed and edited video published on the militia's official social media platform depict him being escorted into a detention area at a detention facility on the edges of al-Fashir.

At the same time, the RSF and connected digital accounts began trying to reshape the story.

Content depicting its combatants handing out assistance to civilians were shared by some individuals, while the militia's public relations unit released numerous videos purporting to display the compassionate management of military prisoners of war.

Despite the online campaign being used by the paramilitary, their conduct in el-Fasher have provoked international outrage.