The prime minister of the southern African kingdom of Lesotho has fled to South Africa, alleging a coup by the army and saying his life is in danger. Thomas Thabane said he would return from South Africa "as soon as I know I am not going to get killed." He told the BBC Newshour program, "I have been removed from control not by the people but by the armed forces, and that is illegal." The publisher of the Lesotho Times newspaper, Basildon Peta, agreed that a coup is underway. "To all intents and purposes it is a military coup with the aim of ousting the prime minister. There can be no other reason of soldiers behaving the way they have been behaving other than to seize power," he said. "So far we have no reports of killings. It would be correct to call it a bloodless coup attempt. But I am not going to stick around."
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