france convicts rwandan genocide denier  the first time those denying the genocide had been punished in europe. > a court in france has found french-cameroonian author charles onana guilty of downplaying the rwandan genocide. > the 60-year-old writer was fined 8,400 ($8,900; 7,000) and damien serieyx, his publishing director from ditions du toucan, was ordered to pay 5,000. they are also required to pay 11,000 in compensation to human rights organisations that that filed the suit. > in his book rwanda, the truth about operation turquoise - published in 2019 - onana described the idea that the hutu government had planned a genocide in rwanda as "one of the biggest scams" of the last century.
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