Content_paragraphs:  While violence directly attributable to the parties to the civil war has ebbed,
  
  intercommunal violence has risen sharply over the past year and, in many cases, has
  
  been fuelled directly by national political actors. Between July and September, the
  
  UNMISS Human Rights Division recorded more than 260 violent incidents affecting
  
  1,223 civilians. The vast majority of those incidents have been attributed to
  
  politicized intercommunal violence. While this number represents a decrease in
  
  violence as compared with the second quarter of the year, there was an increase in
  
  conflict-related sexual violence of 88 per cent during the third quarter. The overall
  
  decrease in violent incidents was largely the result of severe flooding that affected
  
  many parts of the country and made the movement and activities of armed actors more
  
  difficult. Overall, UNMISS has recorded significantly more violent incidents in 2020
  
  than in 2019 (see figure I).
  
   
  
  
  
   
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    Figure I
  
    Victims of violent incidents in 2019 and 2020, January to September