France, Nov. 7 -- New analysis of online videos, satellite images and eyewitness accounts has painted a chilling picture of atrocities committed during the capture of El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces. The findings reveal a campaign of violence against civilians that researchers say could constitute war crimes.

Investigations by the Sudan War Monitor and Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab drew on open-source material shared on social media by the paramilitaries themselves. Their findings offer damning documentation of the brutality that followed the RSF's assault on 26 October.

One video shows RSF fighters moving through the Saudi Hospital in El-Fasher, stepping over bodies strewn across th...