ABSTRACT The Kingdom of Lesotho spends around five per cent of its annual budget – some 700 million Maloti ($US52.6 million) in 2017 – on the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF). Lesotho’s geographical position means that the LDF has no meaningful role regarding its primary function of defending the country from external aggression and it hardly engages in its secondary functions. In addition, the LDF has a long history of interference with democratic processes and engaging in human rights abuse. The financial resources currently allocated to the LDF could do far more for security, widely defined, if they were allocated to a number of other government expenditure categories.

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莱索托非军事化的案例

摘要莱索托王国将其年度预算的约 5%——2017 年约 7 亿马洛蒂（5260 万美元）——用于莱索托国防军（LDF）。莱索托的地理位置意味着，LDF 在其保卫国家免受外部侵略的主要职能方面没有任何有意义的作用，它几乎不从事其次要职能。此外，LDF 长期以来一直干涉民主进程和侵犯人权。如果将目前分配给 LDF 的财政资源分配给许多其他政府支出类别，它们可以在广泛定义的安全方面发挥更大作用。