ARMY commander Lieutenant General Mojalefa Letsoela has demanded an explanation from the Lesotho Correctional Services (LCS) boss over why detained soldiers were assaulted in custody last week. Speaking at the end of the year parade at the Makoanyane Barracks last weekend, Lt Gen Letsoela said he was not happy that the prison warders had beat […]
THE Law Society of Lesotho wants the Lesotho Correctional Services (LCS) boss to fall on his own sword following a security lapse and the brutal assault of soldiers at the Maseru maximum prison last week In a statement yesterday, Law Society president, Advocate Lintle Tuke, said LCS Commissioner Mating Nkakala should resign or else the […]
THE brutal assault of nine soldiers at the Maseru Central Correctional Facility last week is yet another sad reminder of the centrality of violence in our society. We are a people who tend to respond disproportionately at the slightest whiff of provocation. We mete out violence to settle disagreements, disagreements that we could have easily […]