Lesotho - Fighting update

(22 Sep 1998) T/I: 10:54:35


South African troops sent to restore stability to Lesotho on Tuesday (22/9) met fierce resistance from soldiers and bitter opposition from anti-government protesters. By nightfall, the South Africans were still engaged in a raging battle with Lesotho soldiers for control of the Makonyane military base outside Maseru, with the local troops well
entrenched on the hillside where the barracks is sited.

SHOWS:

MASERU, LESOTHO - 22/09

00.00 ws troops in tanks approaching
00.10 ms people demonstrating
00.13 ms tank driving in to thick of crowds
00.19 ms man lying in front of row of tanks
00.25 ws line of troops approaching
00.29 ms pull out from gate with rebels on other side, soldiers on camera side
00.35 cu rebel on other side aiming at South African troops
00.38 ms soldier standing against wall, fires
00.40 ms tank smashes into van
00.45 ms South African troops arrest Lesotho troops, who put their hands up
00.52 SOT Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Acting South African President in English:"This I would like to stress is an SADC intervention and not a South African operation"
01.02 ms youths looting a shop
01.06 ws high shot of people running away with their possessions
01.09 ms explosion in shop
01.12 cu fire raging
01.14 ws man running across the street with fire hydrant
01.17 ws aerial shot of burning factory
01.22 ws aerial shot burning buildings

01.26 Vision Ends

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