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Militiamen laugh as they move on the back of a transport truck, speeding by a line of nine dead bodies and moving in the direction of the descending Sudan's sunset.

"See such effort. Look at this instance of mass destruction," one shouts.

He grins as he turns the recording device on his own face and his associate militiamen, their RSF insignia visible: "The victims will all die like this."

The combatants are rejoicing over a mass killing that humanitarian officials suspect claimed the lives of in excess of thousands of individuals in the Sudan's urban center of the Darfur city last month.

An Urban Center Isolated from the World

Having held the city under blockade for almost an extended period, from August the militia advanced to strengthen its control and restrict the remaining residents.

Orbital photography show that troops began to construct a massive earth barrier - a raised sand barrier - around the perimeter of al-Fashir, blocking access routes and preventing aid.

While the blockade intensified, seventy-eight people were killed in an militia strike on a mosque on mid-September, while the UN said 53 more were murdered in aerial and cannon strikes on a refugee settlement in fall.

Graphic Recording Shows Weaponless Civilians Gunned Down

In the early morning on October 26th the paramilitary force conquered the last military defenses and captured the primary compound in the city, the main facility of the Military Unit, as the government forces withdrew.

Perhaps the most graphic recordings to surface and analysed depicted the consequences of a mass killing at a campus structure on the west of the community, where numerous corpses were seen spread throughout the area.

An older man clad in a robe remained by himself amid the bodies. The man rotated to glance as a fighter equipped with a firearm moved along the steps in the direction of the individual. Raising his weapon, the shooter fired a solitary shot at the victim, who dropped to the ground lifeless.

"How come is this person still alive," one combatant cried. "Kill this person."

Space-based imagery recorded on October 26th seemed to confirm that executions were also conducted on the streets of the city, as reported by a study issued by the university analysis team.

A key observer who communicated said he had seen "many of our family members being massacred - they were assembled in a specific area and each one eliminated."

RSF Officers Try to Conduct Public Relations

In the days that ensued from the killings, RSF leader admitted that his fighters had committed "wrongdoings" and said the incidents would be looked into.

Among those apprehended was following a investigation recording his killings. Deliberately staged and modified video published on the militia's official Telegram platform reveal him being escorted into a prison room at a prison on the edges of al-Fashir.

Meanwhile, the militia and associated digital accounts commenced trying to reshape the narrative.

Updates presenting its combatants providing aid to residents were shared by various accounts, while the force's public relations unit released multiple recordings allegedly to display the proper handling of government captives.

Despite the digital effort being used by the RSF, their activities in the city have sparked worldwide outrage.