In a synchronized time, the SPLM army committed brutal massacres in the Upper Nile State brining to minds the massacres of Rwanda that took place in the 1990s.
According to eye witnesses, the SPLM army backed a group belonging to the Dinka tribes in the Upper Nile State and carried out the massacre against a number of the members of the Shiluk tribes.

The witnesses said the massacre seemed to be a deliberate retaliationary attack in which the SPLM-backed Dinka tribes threatened further attacks.

Sources in the SPLM said that the commanders and senior officers of the SPLM from the Shiluk tribes and other ethnicities were angered by the incident.

The attack coincided with the arrival of the US special envoy to Sudan Scott Gration in Sudan and with the speech of the President of South Sudan Government Salva Kiir Mayardit that his movement will support the separation trends of the southerners.

Some Sudanese newspapers, TV channels and news agencies have mirrored scene of the brutal killings that was committed in the Upper Nile State.

No doubt that this incident together with the other previous brutal and bloody could push the southern citizens to back track on their tendencies toward separation.
If the South seceded, it will be very difficult to live with the SPLM army with its current chaotic behavior and the inter-tribal fighting in the South.

Surely, the south Sudan citizens realize the looming dangers if the SPLM assumed the power in the South.

But, the important issue right now is the punishment of the perpetrators of these crimes which are bloodier than the war crimes. There will be no exaggeration if we describe the current fighting in the South as genocide against specific ethnicities.