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Fighters laugh as they move on the back of a pick-up truck, speeding past a line of several corpses and heading facing the setting Sudan's evening sky.

"Observe this extensive work. Look at this instance of genocide," one cheers.

He beams as he points the video equipment on his person and his associate combatants, their Rapid Support Forces insignia on display: "These people are all going to be killed this way."

These individuals are exulting in a mass killing that relief organizations fear killed over two thousand individuals in the African city of al-Fashir during October.

An Urban Center Isolated from the Outside

Following their control of the city under encirclement for almost two years, from August the paramilitary force moved to strengthen its dominance and prevent access for the leftover inhabitants.

Space-based imagery show that fighters commenced to build a enormous earth barrier - a raised dirt embankment - encircling the perimeter of el-Fasher, closing entry points and preventing relief supplies.

As the siege intensified, seventy-eight civilians were killed in an RSF attack on a religious building on 19 September, while the international organization said dozens additional were slain in drone and cannon bombardments on a makeshift community in fall.

Disturbing Recording Shows Weaponless People Gunned Down

In the early morning on late October the RSF overwhelmed the remaining military positions and took control of the main compound in the community, the main facility of the 6th Infantry Division, as the government forces withdrew.

Among the most horrific footage to surface and examined revealed the results of a mass killing at a university building on the west of the urban area, where dozens corpses were visible strewn throughout the area.

An older individual dressed in a traditional garment was seated by himself amongst the corpses. The individual turned to gaze as a fighter equipped with a weapon proceeded descending the staircase towards him. Raising his firearm, the fighter released a single shot at the individual, who fell to the ground lifeless.

"Why is this individual even alive," another militiaman cried. "Shoot this one."

Orbital photography taken on late October seemed to confirm that shootings were also conducted on the roads of the city, according to a report released by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

An observer who communicated stated they had seen "numerous of our kin getting massacred - they were assembled in one place and each one killed."

Paramilitary Officers Seek to Conduct Damage Control

In the days that came after the killings, militia chief admitted that his fighters had perpetrated "wrongdoings" and announced the incidents would be investigated.

Among those detained was after a investigation recording his murders. Meticulously choreographed and edited recording shared on the militia's formal Telegram channel show him being led into a detention area at a prison on the perimeter of al-Fashir.

Meanwhile, the paramilitary force and associated online accounts started trying to alter the narrative.

Posts presenting its combatants distributing aid to inhabitants were circulated by several accounts, while the militia's public relations unit shared multiple recordings claiming to display the proper treatment of military captives.

Despite the online campaign being deployed by the militia, their actions in al-Fashir have sparked international anger.