'Our Mission Is Only Eliminating' - How Sudan's Brutal Paramilitary Group Conducted a Mass Killing

Militiamen laugh as they ride on the rear of a utility vehicle, speeding alongside a line of multiple dead bodies and moving towards the setting Sudan's sun.

"Look at this extensive effort. See this mass destruction," a combatant cheers.

The fighter beams as he turns the camera on his own face and his fellow combatants, their Rapid Support Forces insignia on display: "These people are all going to perish this way."

These individuals are rejoicing over a mass killing that humanitarian officials fear claimed the lives of more than two thousand people in the Sudan's urban center of the Darfur city during October.

A Community Isolated from the Outside

Following their control of the city under encirclement for approximately 24 months, from late summer the RSF advanced to reinforce its control and blockade the leftover civilian population.

Satellite images demonstrate that troops commenced to erect a massive berm - a built-up sand barrier - around the perimeter of the city, sealing off access routes and blocking relief supplies.

During the encirclement worsened, seventy-eight civilians were slain in an paramilitary attack on a mosque on 19 September, while the United Nations said dozens further were murdered in drone and heavy weapon strikes on a displacement camp in October.

Explicit Footage Depicts Weaponless Individuals Shot

By sunrise on 26 October the militia overwhelmed the last government positions and took control of the primary base in the city, the main facility of the 6th Infantry Division, as the government forces retreated.

One of the most disturbing videos to emerge and studied showed the results of a massacre at a university building on the west of the city, where dozens corpses were observed spread across the area.

An older person wearing a white tunic sat isolated amid the bodies. He rotated to look as a fighter carrying with a weapon walked down the staircase in the direction of the individual. Raising his firearm, the shooter discharged a one bullet at the victim, who fell to the surface lifeless.

"For what reason is this individual still living," another combatant cried. "Shoot him."

Orbital photography captured on October 26th appeared to confirm that shootings were additionally performed on the thoroughfares of the city, according to a analysis issued by the academic research center.

One eyewitness who spoke stated he had seen "numerous of our family members getting killed - they were collected in a single location and everyone killed."

RSF Commanders Try to Implement Public Relations

During the period that came after the atrocity, militia chief conceded that his troops had committed "wrongdoings" and said the events would be looked into.

Among those detained was following a analysis documenting his executions. Meticulously staged and produced video posted on the paramilitary's formal messaging platform reveal the commander being escorted into a cell at a jail on the perimeter of al-Fashir.

Simultaneously, the RSF and associated social media accounts commenced trying to reshape the account.

Updates showing its militiamen providing aid to residents were circulated by various accounts, while the paramilitary's public relations unit shared multiple videos purporting to display the compassionate handling of army captives.

Regardless of the online campaign being deployed by the paramilitary, their activities in the city have sparked worldwide condemnation.