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Combatants chuckle as they travel on the back of a utility vehicle, racing past a row of nine lifeless forms and moving in the direction of the setting Sudan's sunset.

"See all this effort. Observe this ethnic cleansing," a fighter shouts.

He smiles as he points the recording device on his own face and his associate combatants, their paramilitary insignia on display: "The victims are all going to die in this manner."

These individuals are exulting in a atrocity that humanitarian officials believe killed over two thousand people in the Sudan's urban center of el-Fasher in recent weeks.

An Urban Center Cut Off from the World

Having held the city under siege for nearly 24 months, from August the paramilitary force moved to consolidate its control and blockade the surviving residents.

Orbital photography demonstrate that forces began to construct a immense earth barrier - a built-up sand barrier - encircling the perimeter of el-Fasher, blocking access routes and blocking aid.

While the blockade escalated, seventy-eight people were killed in an RSF assault on a mosque on September 19th, while the international organization said dozens additional were murdered in unmanned aircraft and artillery strikes on a refugee settlement in October.

Disturbing Footage Depicts Defenseless Civilians Gunned Down

In the early morning on October 26th the militia overwhelmed the final army strongholds and took control of the primary base in the city, the headquarters of the Army Division, as the army retreated.

Among the most disturbing footage to appear and analysed depicted the results of a massacre at a university building on the western of the urban area, where scores corpses were seen spread over the area.

A senior person clad in a white tunic sat alone surrounded by the victims. The individual rotated to glance as a militiaman carrying with a weapon walked along the staircase facing him. lifting his weapon, the shooter fired a one round at the victim, who fell to the floor lifeless.

"Why is this person still living," one combatant exclaimed. "Shoot this one."

Satellite images taken on late October appeared to substantiate that executions were also conducted on the roads of al-Fashir, according to a report released by the academic research center.

One eyewitness who provided testimony said he had witnessed "numerous of our kin getting massacred - these individuals were gathered in a single location and everyone eliminated."

RSF Commanders Attempt to Conduct Reputation Management

In the days that followed the atrocity, militia leader admitted that his forces had carried out "wrongdoings" and stated the occurrences would be looked into.

Part of the arrested was subsequent to a analysis documenting his executions. Meticulously choreographed and modified footage published on the militia's authorized social media platform show the commander being led into a prison room at a jail on the perimeter of el-Fasher.

At the same time, the RSF and connected social media profiles started attempting to reframe the narrative.

Posts presenting its combatants providing assistance to civilians were circulated by several users, while the force's communications team released multiple recordings allegedly to display the compassionate treatment of army captives.

In spite of the digital initiative being employed by the militia, their activities in the city have generated worldwide condemnation.