"The aim is to load the state with debt and thereby obtain tax revenue" - meaning to have a 'good' (or call it official) reason to push taxes up as dramatically as now, with 22% VAT to mājsaimniecības' electricity and the like?

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I think so: the aim for lenders is to find a way to obtain a source of money through creating debt. The only source of debt repayment (other than more loans) is tax revenue. That's why taxation is going up - especially on non-elastic goods like electricity (non-elastic = necessities).

It is a clear indication of their lack of humanity,

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so basically there was no real money, they just created a debt and now we gotta pay. right?

but then again, the amount is peanuts on a global scale. why would they do this?

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It seems that way to me. Most debt is created out of nothing by central banks, and for that matter, most mortgage debt is also created out of nothing by private banks.

Regarding this debt, I think there are two very important questions:
1) Why was the previous debt taken on - the pre-crisis debt, I mean. From the brief research I have done on the Bank of Latvia's site, some of it (and this is going back to '93) went to private financial institutions.
2) Where exactly is the IMF/EC loan going? It seems comparatively little is going to cover the budget deficit. You can see already that most of it has gone to servicing already existing debt repayments.

Why would they do it?
An easy source of income, and as the state won't be able to pay back the full amount of debt, we will have further loans with the same kind of structural adjustment packages and loss of sovereignty. In other words - control.

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