“Rwanda is a very poor country with very few valuable exports, mainly tea and coffee, and imports outweigh exports by a factor of nearly four. The country is extremely dependent on donor loans and grants, which finance roughly half of the government’s budget. Despite the fact that the ‘Government of Rwanda’ has violated several important economic agreements with the Bretton Woods institutions, inter alia by financing its military by precious commodities obtained under cover of the war in the Congo, donors have nevertheless been unwilling to limit the aid to Rwanda. Aid helps – regardless of the situation, donors say.”
“With reference to the Genocide, donors have been extremely lenient toward the ‘Government of Rwanda’, claiming that the latter needs more aid, fewer conditions, and more patience from donors. A discourse largely invented by the ‘Government of Rwanda’, but accepted at face value by most donors. The discourse of ’recovery from Genocide’ has been successfully introduced by the ‘Government of Rwanda’ and used gratefully by donors to explain why Rwanda should have just a little more time and be given just a little more rope before it could meet the criteria that are normally imposed on other African countries in return for development assistance at a much earlier stage.”
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