Survivor Series Episode 5: Former rebel lifts the lid on FDLR and its ideology of evil
Meet Faustin
Kunde, a 50-year old Rwandan ex-armed forces commando who has lived quite the life.
First as a highly trained member of the
FAR (
Forces Armées Rwandaise), and later upon their defeat by the rebel
RPF (
Rwanda Patriotic Front) a refugee in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (then known as
Zaire).
His military skills were used first by
Congo Brazzaville’s rebel and then president
Dennis Sasou Nguesso, who employed him as a bodyguard and then later by
Laurent Desire Kabila.
Later his skills were then employed by the
FDLR, a genocidal armed group that is accused of horrendous human rights abuses.
Today he is back in
Rwanda, living a life that was, for him, barely imaginable.
In this
Episode of the
Survivor Series, he reveals all about his experience in exile and lifts the lid on t
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