Foreign Soldiers Move to Stop Looters
Soldiers from South Africa and Botswana moved to quell an outbreak of looting after suppressing mutinous Lesotho troops in this mountainous kingdom. The South African and Botswanan troops sparked riots after intervening Tuesday to thwart a mutiny by Lesotho troops. Lesotho’s government requested the intervention two weeks ago amid a revolt by junior Lesotho military officers and strikes that paralyzed the capital, Maseru. The mutineers had apparently sided with opposition parties that claimed elections held in May--swept by the ruling Lesotho Congress Party--were rigged.
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