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Militiamen chuckle as they move on the back of a utility vehicle, speeding alongside a series of several lifeless forms and moving facing the sinking Sudan's evening sky.

"Observe such work. See this ethnic cleansing," a fighter cheers.

He smiles as he points the recording device on his own face and his fellow fighters, their RSF identification on display: "They shall all be killed this way."

These individuals are rejoicing over a massacre that aid workers suspect killed over thousands of people in the Sudanese urban center of al-Fashir during October.

An Urban Center Isolated from the Outside

Following their control of the city under siege for approximately 24 months, from late summer the militia proceeded to consolidate its control and prevent access for the remaining inhabitants.

Satellite images demonstrate that troops started to erect a enormous sand wall - a built-up earthen wall - encircling the edges of al-Fashir, sealing off access routes and halting aid.

While the blockade intensified, seventy-eight people were killed in an paramilitary attack on a mosque on September 19th, while the UN said fifty-three additional were killed in unmanned aircraft and cannon attacks on a refugee settlement in the autumn.

Disturbing Recording Shows Weaponless People Shot

At dawn on October 26th the militia overwhelmed the remaining army positions and seized the main compound in the urban area, the command center of the Military Unit, as the government forces pulled back.

Perhaps the most disturbing videos to surface and analysed showed the aftermath of a atrocity at a campus structure on the western side of the community, where scores lifeless forms were visible strewn across the area.

An older person clad in a traditional garment remained by himself amid the corpses. The individual turned to glance as a combatant armed with a firearm proceeded down the staircase towards the individual. lifting his weapon, the gunman fired a single shot at the victim, who fell to the surface motionless.

"Why is this person still living," another fighter shouted. "Execute this one."

Satellite images captured on late October appeared to verify that executions were furthermore performed on the streets of the city, based on a report released by the university analysis team.

A key observer who spoke said they had observed "multiple of our relatives being executed - the victims were assembled in a specific area and each one killed."

RSF Officers Attempt to Conduct Public Relations

Following the events that ensued from the atrocity, RSF commander admitted that his fighters had carried out "violations" and stated the events would be examined.

Part of the arrested was after a analysis detailing his executions. Carefully staged and modified recording published on the RSF's formal Telegram account depict the individual being escorted into a cell at a prison on the edges of al-Fashir.

Meanwhile, the RSF and associated social media profiles commenced trying to alter the account.

Posts showing its militiamen distributing aid to residents were disseminated by several accounts, while the force's communications team published multiple clips allegedly to demonstrate the humane treatment of government prisoners of war.

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