The story of Radio Inzamba, daring to report on human rights abuses, told by Giedre Steikunaite.
‘When the government destroyed our independent media they thought they had silenced us,’ Patrick Nduwimana says from exile in Kigali, the capital of neighbouring Rwanda. ‘But we’re still here and we still defy them.’
More than 400,000 Burundians have fled since 2015, including dozens of journalists whose radio and TV stations were violently shut down.
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