Alert: This Report Presents Disturbing Accounts of Shootings.
Militiamen chuckle as they travel on the rear of a pick-up truck, hurrying by a line of multiple dead bodies and driving towards the descending Sudanese sunset.
"Look at all this effort. Look at this act of mass destruction," one cheers.
He smiles as he turns the camera on his own face and his associate combatants, their RSF insignia clearly shown: "These people are all going to die in this manner."
The men are exulting in a massacre that relief organizations suspect resulted in the deaths of over thousands of individuals in the African metropolis of the Darfur city last month.
Having held the community under encirclement for approximately two years, from August the RSF proceeded to strengthen its position and blockade the leftover residents.
Space-based imagery reveal that fighters commenced to build a immense berm - a raised earthen wall - encircling the boundaries of al-Fashir, sealing off access routes and preventing humanitarian assistance.
While the blockade intensified, seventy-eight civilians were killed in an RSF attack on a mosque on mid-September, while the United Nations reported fifty-three additional were murdered in unmanned aircraft and artillery bombardments on a makeshift community in October.
By sunrise on late October the paramilitary force conquered the last military positions and took control of the main headquarters in the city, the command center of the 6th Infantry Division, as the government forces pulled back.
Perhaps the most disturbing recordings to surface and analysed depicted the aftermath of a massacre at a university building on the west of the urban area, where scores dead bodies were seen scattered over the floor.
An elderly person dressed in a traditional garment was seated isolated surrounded by the corpses. The individual looked to gaze as a militiaman carrying with a weapon walked down the steps facing the individual. Raising his rifle, the fighter released a single shot at the victim, who fell to the ground motionless.
"Why is this person even breathing," another fighter shouted. "Execute this one."
Orbital photography captured on October 26th seemed to substantiate that killings were furthermore conducted on the streets of el-Fasher, based on a study released by the university analysis team.
One eyewitness who provided testimony said they had observed "many of our kin being executed - these individuals were assembled in one place and each one murdered."
In the days that followed the killings, RSF leader conceded that his forces had carried out "violations" and announced the incidents would be investigated.
Included among apprehended was following a investigation detailing his executions. Carefully choreographed and modified video posted on the paramilitary's authorized messaging channel show the individual being led into a prison room at a jail on the edges of the city.
Simultaneously, the paramilitary force and affiliated digital profiles commenced seeking to alter the narrative.
Updates showing its fighters handing out supplies to residents were shared by various individuals, while the militia's communications team shared numerous clips allegedly to show the humane handling of government prisoners of war.
Despite the digital effort being employed by the paramilitary, their conduct in the city have provoked worldwide anger.
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