The scene is the £230m katse dam in lesotho, a tiny, mountainous kingdom surrounded by South Africa. Troops from its neighbour have arrived to restore order after an anti-government uprising. The Katse army base, close to the 1000-strong encampment around the dam construction site, is a rebel stronghold. A battle ensues; insurgents and civilians are killed. It happened last September: a story that failed to make much television impact and soon faded from the foreign pages of the newspapers, But staff at the headquarters of contractor Kier were devouring every news report and telephoning the British High Commission every day, because three of their colleagues were on the construction team completing the dam.
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