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Combatants laugh as they travel on the bed of a pick-up truck, racing by a line of several corpses and heading towards the sinking African evening sky.

"See all this work. See this instance of genocide," a fighter shouts.

The fighter grins as he turns the video equipment on his own face and his associate militiamen, their RSF badges on display: "The victims shall all perish in this manner."

These individuals are rejoicing over a massacre that relief organizations suspect resulted in the deaths of over 2,000 civilians in the African metropolis of el-Fasher during October.

A City Cut Off from the World

After maintaining the city under blockade for approximately an extended period, from the summer the RSF proceeded to strengthen its dominance and prevent access for the remaining civilian population.

Space-based imagery demonstrate that forces commenced to construct a immense earth barrier - a built-up dirt embankment - encircling the boundaries of the city, blocking access routes and halting relief supplies.

During the encirclement escalated, 78 people were murdered in an RSF assault on a mosque on 19 September, while the UN said fifty-three further were killed in drone and artillery strikes on a makeshift community in fall.

Explicit Video Depicts Weaponless Civilians Shot

By sunrise on 26 October the RSF defeated the last military positions and seized the main headquarters in the city, the headquarters of the 6th Infantry Division, as the government forces pulled back.

One of the most graphic videos to emerge and studied depicted the aftermath of a massacre at a university building on the western side of the urban area, where numerous dead bodies were observed scattered over the area.

An older man dressed in a traditional garment sat alone amid the corpses. He looked to glance as a fighter equipped with a firearm moved along the steps towards the individual. pointing his firearm, the shooter released a one shot at the man, who collapsed to the floor still.

"Why is this person still breathing," another militiaman cried. "Execute this one."

Satellite images taken on late October seemed to confirm that shootings were furthermore conducted on the roads of the city, as reported by a analysis released by the university analysis team.

A key observer who spoke reported they had witnessed "numerous of our family members getting massacred - they were assembled in a specific area and each one murdered."

RSF Officers Seek to Carry Out Damage Control

In the days that followed the massacre, militia chief admitted that his forces had perpetrated "violations" and announced the events would be investigated.

Among those apprehended was subsequent to a analysis documenting his killings. Deliberately staged and modified recording shared on the paramilitary's authorized Telegram platform depict him being led into a cell at a prison on the edges of the city.

Meanwhile, the paramilitary force and associated digital accounts commenced trying to reframe the narrative.

Posts showing its combatants providing supplies to civilians were circulated by several individuals, while the paramilitary's public relations unit published several clips claiming to display the humane handling of government detainees.

Despite the digital initiative being deployed by the RSF, their conduct in the city have sparked international condemnation.