[1] Alexis Sinduhije founded the station in 2001 with the goal of encouraging peace between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups in the later years of the Burundi Civil War, hiring ex-combatants of both ethnic groups as reporters.
[3] In February 2003, Sinduhije's house was broken into and his security guard murdered in apparent retaliation for the station's reporting.
[3] The incident led Amnesty International to call on Burundian authorities to guarantee Sinduhije's safety and that of other journalists.
[4] The government of Burundi briefly banned the station on 17 September 2003 for broadcasting an interview with a spokesman for Agathon Rwasa's rebel group, the National Liberation Forces.
[2] For Sinduhije's work with the station, he was honored with the 2004 International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).