Sojojin 'Yanci na Lesotho

Lesotho Liberation Army ( LLA ) kungiya ce ta 'yan daba a Lesotho, wacce aka kafa a tsakiyar shekarun 1970 kuma tana da alaƙa da Sojojin Yantar da Jama'ar Azaniya (APLA). Ita ce reshen jam'iyyar Basutoland Congress Party (BCP), jam'iyyar siyasa mai ra'ayin mazan jiya kuma ta hagu da aka kafa a 1952, wacce ke adawa da gwamnatin Fira Minista Leabua Jonathan .

 Tarihi 
Jam'iyyar BCP ta lashe zabe na farko cikin 'yanci a shekara ta 1970, amma jam'iyyar Basutoland mai mulki ta kafa dokar ta-baci, ta soke zaben, ta rusa majalisar dokoki da kuma dakatar da kundin tsarin mulkin kasar. BCP ta kaddamar da boren da bai yi nasara ba a cikin gwamnati a shekarar 1974, wanda ya sa Ntsu Mokhehle ya tafi gudun hijira, wanda daga nan ne ya jagoranci bangaren "na waje" na BCP da kuma sabon reshen makamai na Lesotho Liberation Army. Sabuwar kungiyar 'yan tawayen dai tana da alaka ta kut-da-kut da jam'iyyar Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), wata kungiyar 'yan adawa ta Afirka ta Kudu.  Potlako Leballo, wanda ya kafa BCP a shekara ta 1952, ya kasance fitaccen jagora ga PAC da reshenta masu dauke da makamai, kuma ya fi daukar nauyin juyowarta zuwa Maoism . 

A cikin 1976, Sojojin 'Yancin Jama'ar Azaniya sun karbi masu hako ma'adinai na Basotho 178 a matsayin masu daukar ma'aikata, wadanda za su zama tushen Rundunar 'Yancin Lesotho (LLA). An horar da su a Libya, inda gwamnatin Muammar Gaddafi ta ba da horo ga kungiyar APLA. An sanya wa] annan ma'aikatan a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Matooane Mapefane, wanda babban malami ne na APLA a Libya. Tun farko dai tafiyar ta samu karyewa sosai, inda aka yi ta fama da rikicin bangaranci tsakanin wadanda aka dauka da kuma rashin tarbiyya. 

Hare-haren na LLA na farko sun fara ne a watan Mayun 1979, inda aka kai harin bam a babban ofishin gidan waya na kasar. A cikin 1979 Mokhehle ya yi iƙirarin cewa, baya ga sojojin da Libya ta horar da su, sun mallaki 'yan ta'adda 500-1000 da ke da tushe a cikin zurfin tsaunukan Lesotho. Yaki da gwamnati ya yi tsanani a 1979-1980, kuma hare-haren ta'addanci daga LLA ya kasance akai-akai a cikin 'yan shekaru masu zuwa, tare da abubuwan da suka faru irin su tayar da nakiyoyi, tashin bama-bamai, hare-haren turmi, da harbe-harbe. Abubuwan da aka nufa sun haɗa da filin jirgin sama na Leribe, otal ɗin Hilton, 'yan sanda, 'yan siyasa, albarkatun man fetur da wutar lantarki, cibiyar al'adun Amurka, da motar jakadan Jamus ta Yamma .  

Firayim Minista Jonathan, wanda a baya makusanci ne ga gwamnatin wariyar launin fata a Afirka ta Kudu, sannu a hankali ya fara bijirewa daga cikinta, inda a karshe ya kai ga taimakawa jam'iyyar National Congress ta Afirka . Dangane da mayar da martani, an ce PW Botha ya ba wa LLA kudade, duk da dimbin bambance-bambancen akida, kuma ya ba wa 'yan tawayen damar ratsa yankin Afirka ta Kudu.  Duk da wannan ƙungiyar, ba a yanke alaƙa da Majalisar Pan-Africanist Congress ba. An kashe wani dan uwa na babban memba na ANC Thabo Mbeki, Jama (wanda ke da hannu a PAC), a Lesotho a cikin 1982 yayin da yake ƙoƙarin taimakawa LLA. Bayan karuwar rikici tsakanin Lesotho da Afirka ta Kudu, an hambarar da Jonathan a wani juyin mulkin soja karkashin jagorancin Justin Lekhanya, wanda ake zargin ya ba wa LLA kudade bisa kuskure bayan an yi masa zamba.

An ba Ntsu Mokhehle damar komawa Lesotho a farkon shekarun 1990 don yin shawarwarin zaman lafiya, kuma an wargaza sojojin 'yantar da Lesotho bayan hadewar bangarori daban-daban na jam'iyyar Basutoland Congress Party. Daga baya jam'iyyar ta lashe babban zaɓe na 1993, kuma Mokhehle ya zama firayim minista.

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