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Combatants laugh as they move on the back of a utility vehicle, racing past a row of multiple dead bodies and driving in the direction of the descending Sudan's evening sky.

"See all this accomplishment. Observe this act of ethnic cleansing," a fighter shouts.

He grins as he directs the camera on his own face and his companion combatants, their RSF insignia on display: "They will all perish in this manner."

These individuals are celebrating a atrocity that aid workers fear killed in excess of two thousand people in the Sudan's urban center of el-Fasher last month.

An Urban Center Cut Off from the Outside

After maintaining the urban area under siege for nearly two years, from August the RSF advanced to reinforce its dominance and restrict the surviving inhabitants.

Satellite images demonstrate that troops began to construct a massive berm - a raised dirt embankment - around the boundaries of al-Fashir, sealing off roads and preventing relief supplies.

As the siege escalated, 78 civilians were murdered in an RSF strike on a place of worship on September 19th, while the United Nations said dozens more were killed in aerial and artillery attacks on a displacement camp in October.

Explicit Recording Depicts Unarmed Civilians Executed

At dawn on October 26th the paramilitary force overwhelmed the remaining government strongholds and seized the primary headquarters in the city, the headquarters of the Army Division, as the army pulled back.

Among the most disturbing videos to emerge and studied showed the aftermath of a massacre at a campus structure on the west of the urban area, where scores dead bodies were visible spread over the ground.

An elderly person dressed in a white tunic remained alone surrounded by the bodies. He looked to gaze as a fighter armed with a firearm walked descending the steps facing the individual. Raising his rifle, the shooter released a solitary round at the individual, who dropped to the surface motionless.

"For what reason is this individual still breathing," a combatant cried. "Execute him."

Satellite images taken on late October seemed to substantiate that executions were furthermore conducted on the streets of el-Fasher, as reported by a analysis released by the university analysis team.

A key observer who provided testimony said he had seen "numerous of our family members being killed - the victims were collected in a single location and each one murdered."

RSF Officers Try to Carry Out Public Relations

In the days that ensued from the atrocity, RSF leader conceded that his fighters had committed "atrocities" and said the occurrences would be investigated.

Among those detained was subsequent to a analysis recording his killings. Meticulously staged and modified footage shared on the RSF's official messaging channel show him being taken into a prison room at a prison on the perimeter of al-Fashir.

Simultaneously, the militia and affiliated digital accounts began trying to reshape the account.

Posts showing its fighters handing out supplies to residents were disseminated by some individuals, while the force's communications team shared multiple clips claiming to show the humane management of military prisoners of war.

Despite the online initiative being deployed by the RSF, their actions in el-Fasher have sparked international outrage.