Our Purpose Is Solely Killing' - The Way The Sudanese Brutal Militia Perpetrated a Mass Killing

Militiamen chuckle as they move on the back of a transport truck, speeding alongside a series of several dead bodies and heading towards the descending Sudanese evening sky.

"Observe this extensive accomplishment. Look at this act of mass destruction," one exclaims.

The fighter beams as he turns the recording device on himself and his companion fighters, their Rapid Support Forces identification on display: "These people shall all perish like this."

The men are exulting in a mass killing that aid workers suspect killed over thousands of civilians in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher in recent weeks.

A City Severed from the World

After maintaining the urban area under blockade for almost two years, from the summer the militia proceeded to consolidate its dominance and blockade the surviving inhabitants.

Satellite images reveal that fighters began to erect a enormous berm - a elevated sand barrier - surrounding the edges of al-Fashir, sealing off entry points and preventing aid.

During the encirclement intensified, seventy-eight people were murdered in an militia strike on a place of worship on 19 September, while the United Nations said fifty-three more were killed in drone and cannon strikes on a refugee settlement in the autumn.

Explicit Footage Shows Unarmed Civilians Executed

By sunrise on October 26th the RSF overwhelmed the last army defenses and seized the primary compound in the city, the main facility of the 6th Infantry Division, as the army retreated.

Perhaps the most horrific footage to appear and analysed revealed the results of a mass killing at a university building on the west of the city, where dozens dead bodies were visible spread across the ground.

An older person wearing a robe was seated isolated amongst the corpses. The individual turned to gaze as a combatant carrying with a rifle moved down the steps facing the individual. pointing his rifle, the shooter released a solitary shot at the individual, who dropped to the ground lifeless.

"How come is this one yet living," a militiaman cried. "Kill this one."

Satellite images taken on October 26th indicated to verify that killings were also conducted on the thoroughfares of al-Fashir, according to a analysis published by the academic research center.

An observer who provided testimony said the individual had witnessed "numerous of our kin being killed - they were assembled in a single location and everyone killed."

RSF Commanders Attempt to Implement Damage Control

In the days that ensued from the massacre, militia chief admitted that his forces had committed "wrongdoings" and said the events would be investigated.

Included among detained was subsequent to a analysis detailing his murders. Deliberately choreographed and produced footage published on the militia's formal Telegram platform show him being escorted into a cell at a detention facility on the edges of el-Fasher.

Simultaneously, the RSF and connected online accounts started attempting to reshape the account.

Posts presenting its militiamen providing assistance to residents were shared by some individuals, while the paramilitary's communications team published multiple clips purporting to demonstrate the humane management of government prisoners of war.

In spite of the online campaign being employed by the paramilitary, their activities in al-Fashir have provoked international anger.