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Combatants laugh as they travel on the back of a pick-up truck, speeding past a series of nine corpses and moving facing the setting Sudan's sunset.

"Observe such effort. Observe this act of mass destruction," a combatant shouts.

The individual smiles as he points the recording device on his own face and his companion militiamen, their paramilitary badges visible: "The victims shall all die this way."

These individuals are celebrating a mass killing that aid workers believe resulted in the deaths of more than two thousand civilians in the Sudanese city of al-Fashir during October.

An Urban Center Severed from the Outside

Having held the urban area under encirclement for approximately two years, from the summer the militia moved to consolidate its position and prevent access for the surviving residents.

Satellite images reveal that forces began to build a massive berm - a built-up dirt embankment - around the boundaries of al-Fashir, closing access routes and preventing relief supplies.

During the encirclement escalated, seventy-eight people were murdered in an militia assault on a mosque on September 19th, while the UN stated fifty-three additional were slain in aerial and cannon bombardments on a refugee settlement in fall.

Graphic Video Depicts Weaponless Individuals Executed

At dawn on late October the RSF conquered the last government positions and seized the central headquarters in the city, the command center of the 6th Infantry Division, as the military withdrew.

One of the most graphic recordings to emerge and analysed revealed the results of a atrocity at a campus structure on the western side of the urban area, where scores corpses were seen spread over the area.

An older person clad in a white tunic remained alone amid the corpses. The man turned to glance as a combatant armed with a firearm moved descending the steps facing the victim. Raising his weapon, the fighter released a solitary bullet at the man, who fell to the ground motionless.

"Why is this one yet living," a fighter cried. "Shoot him."

Satellite images recorded on 26 October appeared to confirm that executions were furthermore carried out on the thoroughfares of the city, based on a analysis published by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

One observer who spoke said he had seen "multiple of our kin being massacred - they were assembled in a specific area and each one killed."

Militia Officers Seek to Carry Out Reputation Management

Following the events that followed the atrocity, RSF chief admitted that his forces had carried out "wrongdoings" and stated the events would be examined.

Among those detained was after a report recording his executions. Deliberately staged and modified footage posted on the RSF's authorized social media platform reveal the individual being led into a prison room at a prison on the edges of el-Fasher.

Meanwhile, the militia and associated digital channels began attempting to alter the story.

Content depicting its militiamen distributing supplies to residents were disseminated by some accounts, while the paramilitary's communications team published several videos claiming to display the compassionate treatment of government prisoners of war.

Regardless of the digital initiative being employed by the militia, their conduct in el-Fasher have generated worldwide anger.