Umukundwa is a Rwandan journalist who worked for various foreign news media including Voice of America, which has many listeners in the Great Lakes region.

She was always very outspoken in her articles and reports, including those about the activities of the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (FPR). She was often the target of threats and physical attacks but this did not deter her.

However, after gunmen invaded her home and her brother was the target of a physical attack in August 2006, she felt she had to flee Kigali for the sake of her physical safety and freedom.

Now a refugee in France, she calmly relates these experiences and ordeals in the video.