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Combatants laugh as they travel on the bed of a transport truck, racing past a series of nine lifeless forms and driving in the direction of the setting African sunset.

"See all this work. Look at this act of ethnic cleansing," one cheers.

The fighter beams as he turns the video equipment on his own face and his fellow militiamen, their paramilitary identification on display: "They are all going to perish like this."

The combatants are rejoicing over a mass killing that relief organizations suspect resulted in the deaths of over thousands of civilians in the African city of el-Fasher last month.

An Urban Center Cut Off from the Outside

Having held the city under blockade for nearly two years, from the summer the paramilitary force advanced to strengthen its dominance and blockade the surviving civilian population.

Orbital photography show that fighters commenced to build a enormous berm - a elevated dirt embankment - around the perimeter of the city, blocking roads and halting humanitarian assistance.

During the encirclement escalated, 78 individuals were slain in an RSF attack on a religious building on 19 September, while the UN said 53 more were killed in unmanned aircraft and artillery attacks on a makeshift community in October.

Explicit Recording Shows Weaponless Individuals Gunned Down

At dawn on 26 October the RSF conquered the final military strongholds and captured the central compound in the community, the command center of the Military Unit, as the military withdrew.

Perhaps the most graphic videos to surface and analysed revealed the consequences of a atrocity at a university building on the western of the community, where dozens corpses were observed strewn over the area.

An older individual dressed in a white tunic sat alone amongst the corpses. He looked to look as a combatant armed with a weapon proceeded down the staircase towards him. lifting his firearm, the shooter released a solitary bullet at the man, who collapsed to the ground lifeless.

"For what reason is this one yet alive," another fighter shouted. "Execute this person."

Orbital photography taken on late October seemed to verify that shootings were also carried out on the streets of al-Fashir, based on a report published by the university analysis team.

An witness who communicated stated they had witnessed "numerous of our family members being killed - the victims were collected in a single location and each one killed."

RSF Leaders Try to Conduct Public Relations

Following the events that ensued from the atrocity, RSF chief admitted that his forces had committed "atrocities" and said the occurrences would be examined.

Included among detained was subsequent to a analysis detailing his executions. Deliberately staged and modified recording published on the paramilitary's official messaging channel reveal the commander being taken into a detention area at a prison on the perimeter of al-Fashir.

Simultaneously, the militia and associated digital profiles started trying to reshape the story.

Content depicting its combatants distributing supplies to residents were shared by some users, while the paramilitary's public relations unit released several videos purporting to show the proper treatment of army prisoners of war.

Regardless of the social media campaign being deployed by the militia, their activities in al-Fashir have provoked global outrage.