State of Emergency
The first post-independence elections were conducted in January 1970. The first post-independence elections in 1970 were free from any serious incident and Chief Leabua was prepared to hand over to the BCP, which had won 36 of the 60 seats. He was dissuaded by senior ex-ministers and got the approval of British police commanders to launch a coup. BCP leaders were jailed without trial for between 2–3 years and then fled into exile in January 1974 after a failed uprising.
The King, who was associated with the minuscule MFP, was had been humiliated and kept under house arrest since January 1967, was then sent to the Netherlands and then Wantage in England near Oxford, where he had previously studied.
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