🔗 Share this article

Combatants smirk as they move on the rear of a transport truck, racing by a row of several corpses and moving facing the descending Sudanese evening sky.

"Look at such effort. See this genocide," one exclaims.

The individual grins as he points the camera on his person and his companion militiamen, their paramilitary insignia clearly shown: "The victims will all die in this manner."

The combatants are exulting in a massacre that relief organizations fear killed over two thousand civilians in the Sudan's city of el-Fasher last month.

A City Isolated from the World

Following their control of the city under encirclement for almost 24 months, from the summer the paramilitary force moved to reinforce its control and prevent access for the surviving civilian population.

Satellite images demonstrate that fighters began to construct a massive sand wall - a built-up earthen wall - encircling the perimeter of the city, sealing off entry points and blocking humanitarian assistance.

While the blockade worsened, 78 civilians were slain in an paramilitary attack on a religious building on September 19th, while the international organization stated fifty-three more were murdered in aerial and cannon strikes on a displacement camp in the autumn.

Explicit Footage Reveals Weaponless People Executed

By sunrise on late October the militia defeated the remaining government positions and captured the main base in the community, the command center of the Army Division, as the government forces retreated.

Among the most disturbing recordings to emerge and analysed showed the results of a massacre at a educational facility on the western of the urban area, where scores corpses were seen scattered throughout the area.

An older man wearing a white tunic was seated isolated surrounded by the bodies. The individual turned to look as a combatant carrying with a weapon proceeded descending the stairs in the direction of him. Raising his rifle, the gunman discharged a single shot at the individual, who dropped to the surface motionless.

"For what reason is this individual still breathing," a fighter exclaimed. "Kill this person."

Satellite images taken on late October seemed to substantiate that killings were furthermore carried out on the streets of the city, according to a analysis released by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

A key witness who spoke said he had seen "multiple of our relatives being killed - they were assembled in a specific area and each one murdered."

Paramilitary Commanders Seek to Implement Damage Control

In the days that followed the killings, RSF chief acknowledged that his troops had committed "violations" and stated the events would be investigated.

Among those arrested was subsequent to a analysis detailing his murders. Meticulously staged and modified recording shared on the militia's formal Telegram channel show the commander being led into a prison room at a detention facility on the outskirts of el-Fasher.

Meanwhile, the paramilitary force and connected social media channels started attempting to reshape the story.

Updates depicting its militiamen providing aid to residents were circulated by several individuals, while the militia's media office released several clips allegedly to demonstrate the proper treatment of army captives.

In spite of the online initiative being deployed by the RSF, their actions in al-Fashir have provoked global condemnation.