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Combatants smirk as they move on the bed of a pick-up truck, speeding past a row of several dead bodies and moving in the direction of the setting African sunset.

"See such accomplishment. See this instance of genocide," a fighter shouts.

He grins as he points the camera on himself and his companion combatants, their RSF identification clearly shown: "The victims shall all perish like this."

The combatants are exulting in a atrocity that relief organizations suspect resulted in the deaths of in excess of thousands of individuals in the Sudan's metropolis of el-Fasher last month.

A City Severed from the World

Having held the city under blockade for nearly 24 months, from late summer the militia advanced to strengthen its control and blockade the remaining civilian population.

Orbital photography reveal that fighters began to erect a massive earth barrier - a raised sand barrier - around the edges of the city, sealing off entry points and blocking aid.

While the blockade worsened, 78 individuals were murdered in an militia strike on a place of worship on September 19th, while the United Nations said 53 more were murdered in aerial and artillery attacks on a makeshift community in the autumn.

Disturbing Video Depicts Weaponless People Executed

By sunrise on late October the paramilitary force overwhelmed the remaining government positions and captured the central headquarters in the community, the headquarters of the Military Unit, as the government forces withdrew.

Perhaps the most disturbing recordings to surface and analysed showed the consequences of a mass killing at a campus structure on the western side of the city, where scores corpses were seen strewn throughout the floor.

An elderly individual clad in a robe sat alone amid the bodies. He rotated to glance as a fighter equipped with a firearm walked along the staircase facing the individual. Raising his weapon, the shooter released a one shot at the individual, who collapsed to the floor motionless.

"Why is this individual still living," one combatant shouted. "Kill this person."

Satellite images taken on October 26th appeared to substantiate that killings were furthermore performed on the streets of the city, as reported by a study released by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

One witness who communicated reported the individual had seen "multiple of our relatives getting killed - these individuals were assembled in a single location and all murdered."

Militia Commanders Try to Carry Out Reputation Management

In the days that ensued from the killings, militia leader conceded that his troops had perpetrated "wrongdoings" and announced the events would be investigated.

Among those detained was following a report documenting his murders. Deliberately orchestrated and modified recording published on the paramilitary's official messaging platform depict the individual being led into a detention area at a detention facility on the perimeter of the city.

At the same time, the RSF and connected online channels began seeking to reframe the account.

Updates depicting its fighters handing out assistance to civilians were circulated by some individuals, while the force's media office published multiple recordings claiming to show the humane handling of military prisoners of war.

In spite of the online effort being used by the paramilitary, their actions in el-Fasher have generated international condemnation.