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Combatants laugh as they ride on the back of a pick-up truck, speeding alongside a line of multiple dead bodies and driving facing the setting African sun.

"Look at such effort. Observe this instance of genocide," a combatant exclaims.

The fighter grins as he points the camera on his person and his fellow fighters, their Rapid Support Forces badges clearly shown: "The victims are all going to perish in this manner."

The combatants are rejoicing over a atrocity that humanitarian officials believe killed more than 2,000 people in the African metropolis of the Darfur city last month.

A City Cut Off from the Globe

Having held the urban area under blockade for almost 24 months, from August the RSF proceeded to consolidate its control and restrict the leftover inhabitants.

Orbital photography demonstrate that fighters began to build a massive earth barrier - a raised dirt embankment - encircling the boundaries of the city, closing access routes and preventing relief supplies.

As the siege worsened, seventy-eight civilians were slain in an paramilitary assault on a religious building on September 19th, while the UN reported fifty-three additional were killed in drone and heavy weapon bombardments on a refugee settlement in October.

Graphic Recording Shows Defenseless People Gunned Down

In the early morning on October 26th the paramilitary force overwhelmed the last government defenses and took control of the main compound in the urban area, the main facility of the Army Division, as the military pulled back.

Among the most disturbing footage to appear and studied depicted the consequences of a mass killing at a university building on the west of the city, where scores corpses were visible spread throughout the ground.

An older man dressed in a robe remained alone surrounded by the bodies. The man looked to gaze as a combatant armed with a rifle proceeded descending the staircase towards him. pointing his firearm, the fighter discharged a solitary shot at the victim, who fell to the surface motionless.

"How come is this one even breathing," a fighter exclaimed. "Execute this person."

Satellite images taken on October 26th indicated to substantiate that executions were also carried out on the thoroughfares of el-Fasher, as reported by a report published by the university analysis team.

One witness who spoke stated the individual had seen "many of our family members getting massacred - the victims were assembled in one place and each one murdered."

Paramilitary Commanders Seek to Implement Damage Control

Following the events that came after the atrocity, militia leader acknowledged that his fighters had carried out "atrocities" and announced the events would be investigated.

Part of the arrested was following a report documenting his murders. Carefully choreographed and edited footage published on the militia's formal social media platform reveal the commander being taken into a cell at a detention facility on the outskirts of el-Fasher.

At the same time, the militia and affiliated social media channels began trying to alter the account.

Content showing its militiamen distributing assistance to residents were disseminated by several accounts, while the force's media office published multiple videos allegedly to display the humane handling of military captives.

Regardless of the digital initiative being deployed by the militia, their actions in the city have sparked global outrage.