Metsing and others could just get their way Metsing and others could just get their way
Herbert Moyo/’Marafaele Mohloboli
POLITICIANS who clamoured for a truth and reconciliation (TRC) kind of commission as a way of avoiding trial for their alleged human rights violations might as well as get their way.
Opposition Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader Mothetjoa Metsing, Deputy Prime Minister Mathibeli Mokhothu’s now governing Democratic Congress (DC) and Development Planning Minister Selibe Mochoboroane’s Movement for Economic Change (MEC) were the first to demand the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission to pardon politicians, security forces and other high-profile individuals accused of human rights violations.
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