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Combatants chuckle as they ride on the back of a pick-up truck, hurrying past a series of multiple lifeless forms and heading in the direction of the descending Sudanese evening sky.

"Observe all this work. Observe this act of ethnic cleansing," one shouts.

The fighter smiles as he turns the recording device on his person and his fellow militiamen, their RSF insignia clearly shown: "These people are all going to perish like this."

The men are rejoicing over a atrocity that relief organizations fear claimed the lives of more than two thousand individuals in the African urban center of the Darfur city in recent weeks.

A Community Severed from the World

Following their control of the urban area under blockade for nearly two years, from late summer the RSF moved to strengthen its position and restrict the leftover inhabitants.

Orbital photography reveal that troops commenced to build a enormous sand wall - a elevated sand barrier - surrounding the edges of el-Fasher, blocking entry points and halting relief supplies.

As the siege intensified, seventy-eight people were slain in an paramilitary attack on a place of worship on mid-September, while the United Nations reported fifty-three further were murdered in drone and heavy weapon bombardments on a makeshift community in October.

Explicit Video Reveals Weaponless Individuals Executed

In the early morning on October 26th the militia defeated the last army positions and seized the main base in the urban area, the command center of the 6th Infantry Division, as the government forces retreated.

Perhaps the most disturbing videos to emerge and studied showed the results of a atrocity at a university building on the west of the community, where scores corpses were visible spread across the area.

An elderly man wearing a white tunic remained by himself amongst the bodies. The man looked to glance as a militiaman carrying with a firearm walked down the steps towards the individual. Raising his firearm, the fighter fired a single shot at the man, who fell to the floor still.

"For what reason is this individual yet alive," a fighter shouted. "Kill him."

Space-based imagery recorded on October 26th seemed to confirm that killings were also carried out on the streets of el-Fasher, according to a report published by the university analysis team.

A key eyewitness who provided testimony stated they had seen "many of our family members getting massacred - they were collected in a specific area and everyone eliminated."

Militia Commanders Seek to Implement Damage Control

Following the events that followed the massacre, RSF leader admitted that his troops had committed "wrongdoings" and announced the incidents would be investigated.

Among those apprehended was after a report detailing his executions. Meticulously orchestrated and modified video posted on the paramilitary's authorized Telegram account reveal the individual being taken into a cell at a jail on the edges of al-Fashir.

At the same time, the paramilitary force and associated online profiles commenced trying to alter the story.

Posts presenting its militiamen handing out aid to civilians were shared by several accounts, while the force's communications team shared numerous clips allegedly to display the compassionate treatment of government captives.

Regardless of the online campaign being deployed by the RSF, their actions in al-Fashir have sparked global outrage.