![]() ![]() Although a report by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative expressed major concern and concluded that the state of governance and human rights did not satisfy Commonwealth standards, 4 Rwanda was admitted to the club without much debate in November 2009. The regime seeks full control over people and space: Rwanda is an army with a state, rather than a state with an army. ![]() Yet there is consensus in the international scholarly community 3 that Rwanda is run by a dictatorship with little respect for human rights, little attention to the fate of the vast majority of its population made up of ever-poorer peasants, and little awareness of the structural violence its ambitious engineering project engenders. The International Crisis Group (ICG) remarked that ‘If they sometimes privately agree that some things are going seriously wrong, there is a general consensus to give the government a smooth ride’. 1 Since most observers would agree that the regime has achieved impressive results since 1994, many are ready to support it without asking too many questions. Rwanda became and has remained a ‘donor darling’. ![]() Although donor assessments differ considerably, and despite concerns over political governance domestically and the country's interference in the DRC, many in the international community have given the post-genocide regime the benefit of the doubt. R wanda is a country full of paradoxes, difficult for outsiders to comprehend and to apprehend. ![]()
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