Burundi / Strategy
As in its other campaigns, Radio Benevolencija plans to continue its broadcast and knowledge-embedding activities in Burundi for at least three years. This means that the organization intends to continue broadcasts of the two flagship programs Musekeweya and Inyanduruko until the end of 2009.
Currently, the organization is developing its Burundi programming with a weekly radio drama that stresses the need for justice and for an end to a culture of impunity. The Kirundi-language justice drama will inform the audience about the alternative systems used in post-conflict nations to encourage confessions from perpetrators, and allow for a process of accommodation and healing on the part of the victims. Such systems include Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, Commission of Inquiries, Gacaca, etc.
Country background
Burundi has had its share of ethnic conflicts over the past four decades. From its independence from Belgium in 1962 up to the elections of 1993, Burundi was controlled by a series of military dictators, all from the Tutsi minority.