Lesotho: Rights Group Blasts LDF’s ‘Exclusionary’ Recruitment Process

• But LDF refuses to entertain Section 2 concerns
• Says everyone is entitled to freedom of expression

Moroke Sekoboto

Advocates for the Supremacy of the Constitution, a human rights advocacy group also known as SECTION 2, has criticized last month’s LDF recruitment process for soldiers, describing it as “exclusionary, irrational, and especially unfair to young people living in rural areas and those in the diaspora”.

The group argues that the process does not meet the standards of rationality…