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Combatants smirk as they ride on the rear of a transport truck, hurrying by a series of nine dead bodies and moving in the direction of the setting Sudan's evening sky.

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

He beams as he turns the camera on his own face and his companion militiamen, their RSF insignia on display: "They will all be killed this way."

The combatants are celebrating a massacre that humanitarian officials fear claimed the lives of over two thousand civilians in the Sudan's urban center of al-Fashir during October.

A Community Severed from the Outside

Having held the city under siege for approximately 24 months, from August the paramilitary force advanced to strengthen its dominance and restrict the surviving civilian population.

Space-based imagery reveal that troops started to erect a enormous berm - a elevated earthen wall - around the boundaries of the city, blocking roads and preventing humanitarian assistance.

During the encirclement worsened, multiple people were slain in an RSF assault on a place of worship on mid-September, while the UN said 53 further were killed in aerial and artillery attacks on a refugee settlement in fall.

Explicit Video Depicts Defenseless People Gunned Down

In the early morning on October 26th the RSF conquered the remaining military positions and seized the primary base in the city, the main facility of the Army Division, as the military pulled back.

One of the most horrific footage to surface and studied showed the aftermath of a mass killing at a university building on the western side of the city, where numerous dead bodies were observed spread over the ground.

A senior person wearing a robe remained by himself amid the bodies. The individual rotated to look as a fighter equipped with a firearm moved descending the staircase in the direction of him. Raising his weapon, the shooter discharged a single shot at the man, who dropped to the floor still.

"How come is this one even alive," another fighter cried. "Execute this one."

Orbital photography captured on October 26th appeared to confirm that killings were furthermore carried out on the streets of el-Fasher, based on a analysis issued by the university analysis team.

An witness who provided testimony reported the individual had witnessed "numerous of our relatives getting massacred - the victims were collected in one place and all eliminated."

RSF Commanders Attempt to Carry Out Public Relations

During the period that ensued from the killings, paramilitary leader conceded that his fighters had perpetrated "wrongdoings" and announced the occurrences would be investigated.

Part of the arrested was after a analysis documenting his murders. Carefully orchestrated and edited video shared on the militia's authorized messaging platform show the commander being taken into a cell at a detention facility on the outskirts of the city.

At the same time, the RSF and connected social media channels commenced attempting to alter the story.

Posts presenting its fighters providing assistance to civilians were disseminated by several accounts, while the militia's communications team shared multiple clips allegedly to show the proper handling of military captives.

Regardless of the digital effort being used by the paramilitary, their activities in the city have provoked global anger.