Josephine was born in 1964 to a family with five other siblings . In 1974 , her father was assassinated during the 1973 Rwandan coup d'état which led Fina 's mother to exile Rwanda with all of her children in tow . The Uwineza family went to a few neighboring countries where other exiled family members had been staying but eventually ended up in Canada . Josephine later returned to Rwanda in 1998 to provide aid to the nation following the Rwandan genocide which led to a large chunk of the population dead and the nation in shambles
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Josephine Uwineza