Disturbing: Horrific footage of merciless killings released VIDEO

"Look at this. Look at this genocide," one of them shouts, smiling at the camera as he turns it toward himself and his comrades wearing RSF insignia, while riding in a pickup truck past nine lifeless bodies.

According to the BBC, as reported by Index, they use these words to celebrate the massacre in the Sudanese city of El Fasher, where, according to fears of humanitarian workers, more than 2,000 people were killed last month.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on Monday that it is investigating whether the paramilitary forces committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.

El Fasher was a key target for the RSF paramilitary forces and the last stronghold of the Sudanese army in Darfur.

The RSF and the army have been waging a devastating war since their ruling coalition collapsed in 2023.

It is estimated that more than 150,000 people have been killed in the fighting over the past two years, and both sides have been accused of a range of war crimes, many of which the RSF forces repeated after the fall of El Fasher.

City cut off from the world

After keeping the city under siege for nearly two years, RSF members began consolidating positions and blockading the remaining civilian population from August onward.

Satellite images show that the troops began constructing a massive sand barrier around El Fasher, closing access routes and blocking humanitarian aid.

By early October, the city was completely encircled.

As the siege intensified, 78 people were killed in an RSF attack on a mosque on September 19, while UN sources said another 53 people were killed in drone and artillery strikes on a camp for displaced persons in October.

Footage analyzed by BBC Verify also suggests that the RSF sought to impose a food blockade.

One video from October shows a man with his hands and feet tied, hanging upside down from a tree, while the cameraman accuses him of trying to smuggle supplies into the city.

“I swear to God you will pay for this, you dog,” the cameraman shouted, demanding that the captive beg for his life.

Eerie footage of executions of unarmed civilians

By dawn on October 26, the RSF had captured the last military positions and the main base in the city. Soldiers were filmed laughing as they toured the abandoned headquarters.

Later that day, the base was inspected by RSF commander Abdul Rahim Dagalo, the brother of RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

The RSF, originating from the Janjaweed militia responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur between 2003 and 2005, has long been accused of crimes against non-Arab groups.

After the military collapse, footage of horrific atrocities began circulating online.

One of the most disturbing videos shows a massacre in a university building, with dozens of bodies scattered across the floor.

Among them sat an older man in a white tunic. As a fighter with a rifle approached him, the man turned, and the attacker fired a single shot. The man collapsed, and the RSF fighters immediately noticed that someone’s leg in the pile of bodies was twitching. “Why is this one still alive?” one shouted. “Kill him.”

Satellite images from October 26, according to a report by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, confirmed that executions were also taking place in the streets.

Analysts at the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab spotted “clusters” consistent with the size of human bodies and “changes in ground color,” which could be traces of blood.

One eyewitness told the BBC that he had witnessed “the massacre of many relatives—who had been gathered in one place and were all killed.”

Another said he saw RSF fighters “shoot a woman in the chest,” then throw her body aside after taking all her belongings.

Brutality of commander Abu Lulu

While RSF forces rampaged through the city, a group of fighters on the outskirts carried out brutal executions of prisoners.

At a site about eight kilometres from El Fasher, verified video recordings show dozens of bodies in civilian clothes—including what appear to be female bodies—thrown into a ditch by a sand berm.

A key figure in the violence was identified as an RSF commander known as Abu Lulu.

He is shown executing unarmed captives in two videos, and an eyewitness told the BBC that he “ordered his men to kill several innocent people, including children.”

In one clip, as Abu Lulu prepared to kill an injured man, the captive begged him: “I know you. I called you a few days ago.”

Abu Lulu rejected the pleas, stating: “I will never show mercy. Our job is only to kill.”

He then fired a burst at the unarmed man.

Another video shows Lulu killing a group of nine captives. The bodies were left where they fell.

Attempt to control the damage and cover up

A few days after the massacre, RSF leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo admitted that his troops had committed some “violations of rules” and announced an investigation.

A senior UN official said last week that the RSF informed the UN that they had arrested some suspects. Among them was Abu Lulu, who was detained after the BBC published a report on his crimes.

Carefully staged footage showing his arrest was later posted on the RSF’s official Telegram channel.

At the same time, numerous analysts accused the RSF of “removing evidence of their alleged mass crimes.”

A November 4 report notes that satellite images show bodies being removed north of the berm and identified graves near a children’s hospital in El Fasher. The BBC measured white objects in the hospital yard, whose lengths (1.6 to 2 meters) match bodies wrapped in burial shrouds.

Meanwhile, the RSF and affiliated social media accounts launched a campaign to reshape the narrative, posting footage of fighters distributing aid to civilians or treating captives humanely.

Despite this, their actions in El Fasher have sparked global outrage.