Content_paragraphs:  Despite an overall decrease in political violence, conflict -related sexual
  
  violence continued to be perpetrated. UNMISS verified eight incidents involving
  
  11 victims, all women. Survivors were subjected to incidents of such violence,
  
  including gang rape (2), rape (7), attempted rape (1) and threats of rape (1) attributed
  
  to the pro-Machar SPLA-IO (1); the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (5), and
  
  forces loyal to Major General Ochan Puot (allied to the South Sudan People’s Defence
  
  Forces) (1), while the perpetrators’ affiliation in one case had not been conclusively
  
  determined at the time of writing.