The vice-chancellor of the National University of Lesotho and more than 60 expatriate families living on campus fled the country under South African army escort at the height of last week's abortive army mutiny.
Several houses were looted and remaining lecturers formed a vigilante force to protect property on the campus outside Maseru where there was most fighting. A security guard was shot and injured.
Between ten and 20 university vehicles were hijacked or stolen by different factions.
Ramoshebi Moletsane, who was appointed vice-chancellor last year, is in talks with the education minister to reopen the temporarily-shut university on October 5. But food shortages may prevent this.
Professor Moletsane fears he may be a target of both supporters of the ruling party, who had invited South African and Botswanan troops to quell the mutiny, and of the opposition.
While students were anxious for the university to remain neutral during the mutiny, there are close links between senior officials and the opposition.
The university's chancellor is King Letsie III, who is allegedly close to opposition parties. A letter emphasising the students' neutrality failed to get beyond the office of the president of the university council, who is a leading member of the opposition.
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