In an October 1992 broadcast it claimed that militia forces of the government's party had "devised traps aimed at exterminating the youth.
"[1] As early as January 1993, months before the RTLM went on-air, Radio Muhabura accused the Rwandan government of genocide.
[2] It routinely denied RPF involvement in civilian killings,[3] and promoted resistance to "Hutu power", to the Habyarimana government, and desertion by the military.
[5] Although the pro-Hutu RTLM (which became an inciting instrument of the Rwandan genocide of 1994) was extensively listened to, Radio Muhabura had a much smaller audience, probably because it broadcast in English instead of Kinyarwanda.
The existence of Radio Muhabura was cited as a part of the defense in the trial of Ferdinand Nahimana in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.