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    "parsed_content": "IdeasThe Most Nihilistic Conflict on EarthSudan\u2019s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.By Anne ApplebaumPhotographs by Lynsey AddarioAugust 6, 2025 Save Subscribe to Listen\u22121.0x+0:0056:32Listen to more stories on harkThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.\u00a0Sign up for it here.In the weeks before they surrendered control of Khartoum, the Rapid Support Forces sometimes took revenge on civilians. If their soldiers lost territory to the Sudanese Armed Forces during the day, the militia\u2019s commanders would turn their artillery on residential neighborhoods at night. On several consecutive evenings in March, we heard these attacks from Omdurman, on the other side of the Nile from the Sudanese capital.From an apartment that would in better times have been home to a middle-class Sudanese family, we would hear one explosion. Then two more. Sometimes a response, shells or gunfire from the other side. Each loud noise meant that a child had been wounded, a grandmother killed, a house destroyed.Just a few steps away from us, grocery stores, busy in the evening because of Ramadan, were selling powdered milk, imported chocolate, bags of rice. Street vendors were frying falafel in large iron skillets, then scooping the balls into paper cones. One night someone brought out folding chairs for a street concert, and music flowed through crackly speakers. The shelling began again a few hours later, probably hitting similar streets and similar grocery stores, similar falafel stands and similar street musicians a couple dozen miles away. This wasn\u2019t merely the sound of artillery, but the sound of nihilism and anarchy, of lives disrupted, businesses ruined, universities closed, futures curtailed.In the mornings, we drove down streets on the outskirts of Khartoum that had recently been battlegrounds, swerving to avoid remnants of furniture, chunks of concrete, potholes, bits of metal. As they retreated from Khartoum, the Rapid Support Forces\u2014the paramilitary organization whose power struggle with the Sudanese Armed Forces has, since 2023, blossomed into a full-fledged civil war\u2014had systematically looted apartments, offices, and shops. Sometimes we came across clusters of washing machines and furniture that the thieves had not had time to take with them. One day we followed a car carrying men from the Sudanese Red Crescent, dressed in white hazmat suits. We got out to watch, handkerchiefs covering our faces to block the smell, as the team pulled corpses from a well. Neighbors clustered alongside us, murmuring that they had suspected bodies might be down there. They had heard screams at night, during the two years of occupation by the RSF, and guessed what was happening.Explore More TopicsAfrica, United Nations, United States Agency for International Development",
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    "ai_simplified_title": "Rapid Support Forces Attack Khartoum Civilians During Civil War",
    "ai_excerpt": "The article describes the devastating impact of Sudan's civil war, focusing on the Rapid Support Forces' attacks on civilians in Khartoum. It highlights the destruction, loss of life, and the pervasive sense of nihilism and anarchy. The author witnessed the aftermath of the attacks and the looting by the RSF.",
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