Many Fertit believed that they were discriminated against by Dinka who increasingly dominated the administration of the southern Sudan.[12] These lingering hostilities grew worse after the Dinka-dominated Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) launched an uprising against the Sudanese government in 1983, resulting in the Second Sudanese Civil War. Few Fertit joined the SPLA, considering it a tool of "Dinka hegemony", and in turn the SPLA considered the Fertit to be an ethnic group "hostile" to the rebellion. SPLA fighters launched a number of destructive raids on Fertit villages in 1985, mostly to acquire supplies to continue their guerrilla campaign.[13]