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Fighters chuckle as they travel on the rear of a utility vehicle, racing by a row of several corpses and heading facing the setting African evening sky.

"Look at such effort. Observe this act of genocide," one shouts.

He smiles as he turns the camera on his person and his fellow fighters, their RSF insignia clearly shown: "These people shall all die in this manner."

The men are celebrating a massacre that humanitarian officials suspect resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 people in the African metropolis of al-Fashir during October.

An Urban Center Isolated from the World

After maintaining the community under encirclement for almost 24 months, from the summer the RSF advanced to strengthen its position and restrict the leftover civilian population.

Orbital photography reveal that troops began to erect a immense berm - a elevated sand barrier - surrounding the boundaries of el-Fasher, blocking access routes and halting humanitarian assistance.

During the encirclement worsened, multiple individuals were killed in an militia attack on a religious building on 19 September, while the international organization stated 53 further were killed in drone and heavy weapon attacks on a makeshift community in October.

Disturbing Recording Shows Unarmed Civilians Shot

By sunrise on late October the militia overwhelmed the remaining government positions and took control of the central headquarters in the urban area, the main facility of the Army Division, as the army pulled back.

Perhaps the most graphic recordings to emerge and analysed revealed the results of a massacre at a university building on the western of the city, where dozens dead bodies were seen spread over the ground.

A senior man clad in a robe was seated isolated amongst the bodies. He rotated to look as a militiaman equipped with a weapon proceeded down the steps facing him. Raising his firearm, the fighter discharged a solitary shot at the man, who dropped to the surface still.

"How come is this one still alive," a militiaman exclaimed. "Kill this one."

Space-based imagery captured on 26 October seemed to verify that executions were also performed on the roads of el-Fasher, as reported by a report released by the academic research center.

A key eyewitness who provided testimony reported he had seen "numerous of our kin being executed - the victims were assembled in a specific area and all killed."

Paramilitary Officers Seek to Conduct Public Relations

In the days that came after the atrocity, paramilitary leader admitted that his forces had committed "violations" and said the events would be looked into.

Among those apprehended was subsequent to a investigation recording his murders. Carefully choreographed and produced footage shared on the militia's authorized messaging account depict the individual being escorted into a prison room at a detention facility on the outskirts of al-Fashir.

At the same time, the militia and affiliated social media profiles started attempting to reframe the narrative.

Content presenting its fighters handing out assistance to inhabitants were shared by various users, while the force's media office shared several clips allegedly to demonstrate the compassionate handling of military captives.

Regardless of the social media initiative being deployed by the RSF, their conduct in al-Fashir have generated international anger.