Some 200 humanitarian NGOs (non-governmental organisations) arrived in Rwanda to help rebuild it, and while Kagame was grateful for the goodwill, the money and the services they could provide, he rankled at the mixture of naivety and entitlement that came along in their cultural baggage, and threw 80 of them out because they refused to register. 'Of the rest, you would be lucky to find five in 100 that are doing it altruistically. The others will choose for you where you should put their money, and try to control what you do in other areas. They come here knowing almost nothing, understanding almost nothing, and they judge and criticise and tell you what you should do. A big part of the misunderstanding is that they expect us to be a normal country, like the ones where they are from. They do not understand that we are operating in a very different context.’