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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>THREE killed in cold blood. Two gravely injured. A hut and a car burnt to ashes. Five houses left with broken windows. And grudges that will last for generations.<\/p>\n

That is the carnage and damage left in Matelile\u2019s Ha-Tebelo village following an attack by a mob of men from the neighbouring Ha-Ramosoeu last Saturday. Ha-Tebelo residents now live in fear.<\/p>\n

The horror started at an initiation graduation ceremony in Ha-Tebelo when a former police officer, from the same village, gifted a gun to an initiate who was leading the graduation songs (mangae).<\/p>\n

The initiation school is in Ha-Tebelo but also had initiates from Ha-Ramosoeu. Mothofeela Billy, the 79-year-old owner of the initiation school, said the members of the initiation committee stood to stop the young man from receiving the gun.<\/p>\n

Area councillor Hanyane Ramants\u030cane who is also the chairman of the initiation committee in the area, says he stood up to reprimand the former cop. \u201cHe did it again with the second boy who was singing and I chastised him again for this behaviour,\u201d Ramants\u030cane said.<\/p>\n

He said it was at this moment that a man approached the former officer and tried to wrestle the gun from him. The two men started fighting with sticks.<\/p>\n

Ramants\u030cane said when the former cop lost the fight his son pulled a gun and shot the man who had defeated him. \u201cHe shot him in the stomach and the man fell on the security fence near the gate.<\/p>\n

\u201d Ramants\u030cane said the ex-cop, his son and other men fled the ceremony in a white Toyota 4\u00d74 van. The shot man, who was admitted at Scott Hospital in Morija, was from Ha-Ramosoeu.<\/p>\n

Ramants\u030cane said shortly after the shooting, men from Ha-Ramosoeu descended on Ha-Tebelo in several cars and started attacking people. The Toyota 4\u00d74 van that had fled the ceremony had disappeared.<\/p>\n

The angry mob soon set its sights on a similar vehicle whose owner had nothing to do with the shooting or the ceremony. The vehicle belonged to Lehana Ntaote, a civil servant who is said to have gone to the village for his farming business.<\/p>\n

The mob then started shooting at Ntaote who, seeing that he was under attack, tried speeding. He however could not outrun the several vehicles that were in hot pursuit.<\/p>\n

Ntaote abandoned his vehicle and started running through the village. Mareka Mareka is the villager who hid Ntaote in his house. \u201cI called him and said he should not run to any place outside the village because there are open fields,\u201d Mareka said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told him to enter my house and instructed my wife to lock him inside.<\/p>\n

\u201d The men from Ha-Ramosoeu arrived at Mareka\u2019s house a few minutes later and demanded to search his house.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked them to tell me the name of the man they were looking for, insisting that there was nobody in the house,\u201d Meraka said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said they would not open any of my houses without my approval or else they should kill me first.<\/p>\n

\u201d<\/p>\n

The mob left Mareka\u2019s house and unleashed terror on the villagers as they searched for Ntaote whom they mistakenly thought was one of the men who had fled the ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u2019Makhotso Molise, whom Ntaote abandoned his van next to her house when he set off on foot, said the mob was cursing as they torched the car.<\/p>\n

As the vehicle was consumed in flames, the mob accused Molise of hiding the men they were looking for in her houses. When she refused to open her house the mob smashed several windows with stones.<\/p>\n

Molise, 43, was in the house with her children, including one who uses a wheelchair when the men attacked. \u201cThey were using obscene and vulgar language.<\/p>\n

\u201d She says one of the stones narrowly missed her head as she was peeping through a window.<\/p>\n

They also smashed the windows of her Toyota van that was parked in the yard. Meanwhile smoke was billowing from the rondavel she uses as a storeroom. \u201cThey said they wanted a boy who had been hidden in the hut.<\/p>\n

\u201d Molise says the attack on her house lasted three hours.<\/p>\n

When they eventually came out of the house, after the police and the army arrived, they found the hut\u2019s thatched roof engulfed in flames but they managed to save some farming equipment.<\/p>\n

She said the attack reminded her of 2021 when her 19- year-old son was fatally shot at their home. Another victim of the attack, \u2019Mahlompho Motheo, 45, was in her yard when she saw the mob approaching Ntaote\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

Motheo said as soon as the vehicle was in flames she screamed and ran into her house. She drew the attention of some of the men who started approaching her house.<\/p>\n

Motheo said she and her family hid under the table as stones flew in through the windows. \u201cThe first stone came followed by the second and third. I thought I was dying,\u201d she said, adding that she only came out of the house when the army arrived.<\/p>\n

The next victim was the 76-year-old Tatiso Soole who has a hearing impairment. Soole said he did not hear what the mob was looking for when they approached him.<\/p>\n

They hit him with stones and sticks, leaving him for dead. He was only discovered on the next day sprawled a few paces from his kraal and was taken to Scott Hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what happened, I still don\u2019t know what they were looking for,\u201d Soole said. Their next victim was a 19-year-old woman who the men hit with sticks after she said she had not hidden anyone in her house.<\/p>\n

A villager who witnessed the attack said the men were about to descend on her with sticks but one of them said they should stop because he believed the woman.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is what saved the poor girl from being killed,\u201d the witness said. The mob then went to the Ha-Tebelo area chief Koali Seeiso\u2019s house and insulted him. \u201cThese children insulted me with my mother,\u201d Chief Seeiso said.<\/p>\n

He believes that the attacks were pre-planned because there was already tension at the ceremony even before the shooting incident. \u201cThere were squabbles already,\u201d the chief said.<\/p>\n

Billy, the initiation school owner, said when the mob arrived at his home they wanted to kill him as well as his traditional doctor, instructor and nephew.<\/p>\n

\u201cI managed to escape through another door and took refuge at the chief\u2019s house,\u201d Billy said. When he later went back to his home he found his son, 37-year-old Moroa Billy, dead.<\/p>\n

There was also another man who was writhing in pain in a corrugated iron shack adjacent to Billy\u2019s main house. They rushed to the hospital where he was declared dead.<\/p>\n

Billy said the man, whose name he didn\u2019t know, had wounds all over his body. \u201cThis child whom I did not even know has died too,\u201d Billy said. \u201cI\u2019m told his home was in Ribaneng and he had come to the graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201d Chief Seeiso said the traditional doctor reported that he ran away with one graduate and hid among the trees on the slopes of the Matelile mountain.<\/p>\n

The initiation instructor said he took the rest of the boys and hid in the village. \u201cI cannot say more but I escaped through my own wisdom,\u201d he said. Billy\u2019s daughter-in-law said some of the men in the mob were wearing blankets associated with a famo music gang.<\/p>\n

Chief Seeiso said many of the gangsters in his village are known to support the Seakhi gang which has its headquarters in Thabana-Morena. \u201cThe other gang often comes here announcing that those who wear the letlama blanket (Seakhi) are women,\u201d the chief said.<\/p>\n

He believes the Saturday violence welled from the rivalry of famo gangs rather than the incident at the ceremony. Matelile is the home of Terene, the largest of the famo gangs.<\/p>\n

Ramants\u030cane, who is a councillor, said the incident at the ceremony \u201cjust triggered what the Ha-Ramosoeu people were waiting for\u201d. \u201cThey wanted to cause a fight in the village but we had successfully denied them any such opportunity because of how we expertly run the whole ceremony,\u201d Ramants\u030cane said.<\/p>\n

He said the ex-cop\u2019s gun present was just a smokescreen. Ramants\u030cane blamed the police and the army for delaying to come when they were called. \u201cI invited the police on Friday during the day and we agreed that they would be here for three days but they were with us for only one day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mareka, who saved Ntaote\u2019s life, said soldiers, who have a post just over a kilometre from Ha-Tebelo, \u201ccould take less than 30 minutes on foot coming here\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fail to understand what took them so long to come when I called telling them that the entire village was under attack and people were being killed,\u201d Mareka said.<\/p>\n

Mareka, who is leading the village crime prevention group, said it took over two hours for the soldiers who were travelling in a van to come to their aid.<\/p>\n

Chief Seeiso said the soldiers who arrived at his home \u201cwere visibly drunk\u201d. \u201cOne of them even spoke in English saying \u2018I don\u2019t care\u2019, perhaps thinking that I did not understand English,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Chief Seeiso said the third victim of the violence was a man but he doesn\u2019t know if he was shot or beaten. \u201cI arranged that he be taken to hospital and he was declared dead on arrival,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Mpiti Mopeli confirmed the incident but said he didn\u2019t know if any of the suspects were arrested. Army spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Sakeng Lekola said the soldiers in the area had to abandon other activities to deal with the violence in Ha-Tebelo.<\/p>\n

He said soldiers were not at their camp near the village when the incident happened. \u201cIt is true that we got there late because we had attended to other places in the area,\u201d Lt Col Lekola said, adding that when they got there they managed to put the situation under control.<\/p>\n

He said incidents of violence and other crimes have reduced since the army was deployed in the area. \u201cGuns were common here. We had confiscated a lot of them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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