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Fighters chuckle as they ride on the back of a pick-up truck, hurrying alongside a row of several lifeless forms and driving in the direction of the descending African evening sky.

"See such work. Look at this mass destruction," a combatant exclaims.

The fighter beams as he directs the recording device on his person and his fellow fighters, their RSF badges clearly shown: "The victims shall all die like this."

The men are exulting in a atrocity that relief organizations believe killed more than two thousand individuals in the African urban center of the Darfur city in recent weeks.

An Urban Center Isolated from the Outside

Having held the city under siege for almost two years, from August the paramilitary force moved to consolidate its position and blockade the remaining inhabitants.

Satellite images demonstrate that fighters started to erect a enormous berm - a elevated dirt embankment - encircling the boundaries of al-Fashir, closing entry points and halting aid.

While the blockade worsened, seventy-eight people were killed in an militia assault on a place of worship on mid-September, while the UN said fifty-three further were slain in drone and heavy weapon bombardments on a displacement camp in October.

Explicit Recording Reveals Unarmed People Gunned Down

By sunrise on October 26th the militia overwhelmed the remaining military positions and seized the main compound in the urban area, the main facility of the Army Division, as the army retreated.

Among the most graphic videos to emerge and analysed depicted the aftermath of a atrocity at a university building on the western side of the community, where scores lifeless forms were observed scattered across the floor.

A senior person wearing a robe remained by himself surrounded by the bodies. He turned to look as a militiaman carrying with a weapon proceeded descending the staircase facing the individual. Raising his rifle, the fighter fired a solitary bullet at the individual, who collapsed to the ground motionless.

"Why is this one yet alive," another fighter exclaimed. "Shoot him."

Satellite images recorded on late October seemed to substantiate that shootings were additionally conducted on the roads of el-Fasher, based on a study published by the university analysis team.

A key eyewitness who provided testimony reported they had seen "many of our family members being killed - these individuals were assembled in a single location and all murdered."

Militia Officers Seek to Carry Out Damage Control

In the days that followed the atrocity, paramilitary chief acknowledged that his troops had carried out "atrocities" and stated the events would be investigated.

Among those arrested was subsequent to a analysis recording his murders. Carefully staged and edited recording published on the militia's authorized Telegram channel reveal the commander being led into a prison room at a prison on the edges of el-Fasher.

At the same time, the RSF and associated social media accounts commenced trying to reshape the story.

Content presenting its fighters distributing assistance to inhabitants were disseminated by several users, while the militia's communications team released several videos purporting to display the proper treatment of military captives.

Despite the online initiative being deployed by the RSF, their activities in el-Fasher have sparked worldwide condemnation.