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1986 Lesotho Coup

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Maseru

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

South African-backed Lekhanya coup ousting Leabua Jonathan.

Belligerents2

Lesotho
South Africa

Conflict graph

PART OFLesotho-South Africa Border Conflicts

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: 1986 Lesotho Coup (1986). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/1986-lesotho-coup · Sources & methodology