As part of Global Voices’ fundraising challenge campaign called “Behind the Story,” we will feature 30 contributors in 30 days. In this series, we ask each contributor about a particular story they have written and why working on it mattered to them. These reflections from these contributors remind us why it is important to ensure that the Global Voices Newsroom is sustainable.

In this insight, Desire Nimubona from Burundi shares thoughts on why working on the story “Burundi’s troubled history of the untold 1972 Hutu genocide” was especially meaningful.

In this story, I talked to the victims of the barbaric killings that claimed several hundred thousand victims. This series of killings didn’t attract the attention of mainstream media. In the African Great Lakes region, several mass killings can go unnoticed, while human rights violations are increasing. That is why GV needs support, to give coverage to the victims in the region and elsewhere. There are human rights violations, here and there, digital rights violations, rapes, war crimes, negationism, militancy spread, economic erosion, forced marriages, illegal logging, vandalism from mining, the destruction of nature, and much more that needs the world's attention.

Global Voices is a platform that provides a space for our community to share stories and perspectives about their community and issues they care about through the accompaniment of a supportive editorial team that assists each contributor to craft their stories.

If you have gained new insights about different parts of the world by reading Global Voices stories from our contributors, please consider donating to keep these stories readily available. Your contribution will support Global Voices’ Newsroom through the end of the year.