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 Armees Rwandaises), and later upon their defeat by the rebel RPF (Rwanda Patriotic Front) a refugee in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then known as Zaire).
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 Rwandaises), and later upon their defeat by the rebel RPF (Rwanda Patriotic Front) a refugee in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then known as Zaire).
VIDEO: Kunde Faustin Prodigal Citizen (Former FDLR). Source: The NewTimes/YouTube
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 the ideology that the FDLR employs up to date.