3 actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in October 2013, according to the new issue of Crisis Watch. Deteriorated Situations: Bangladesh, Kashmir, Mozambique
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Mozambique: former rebel group RENAMO announced it would abandon the 1992 peace that ended the country's fifteen-year-long civil war. Clashes between government forces and RENAMO throughout October reportedly left over 60 dead.
Bangladesh: supporters of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) clashed with police and supporters of the ruling Awami League (AL), leaving twenty dead and hundreds injured. The BNP called for mass demonstrations and a general strike to demand that general elections in January should be overseen by a neutral caretaker government - a call rejected by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Sentences handed down by the country's International Crimes Tribunal to two senior BNP politicians - one for death and another for life imprisonment - for crimes committed during the 1971 war of liberation further inflamed tensions.
Kashmir: India and Pakistan continued to exchange fire across the Line of Control in Kashmir with fatalities on both sides, despite an agreement by the countries' leaders in September to halt attacks. India claimed that Pakistan fired at over 50 border posts on 24 October, in what it called the most serious violation yet of the 2003 ceasefire.
Unchanged Situations
Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, China/Japan, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Cyprus, DR Congo, Egypt, Georgia, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India (non-Kashmir), Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korean Peninsula, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan), Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, North Caucaus (Russia), Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zimbabwe
Improved Situations: None
Conflict Risk Alert: none
Conflict resolution opportunity none, Risk alert none