Charles Onana to go on trial in France for downplaying Rwanda genocide
French-Cameroonian writer Charles Onana faces trial in Paris over a controversial book about the killings.
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About 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed within 100 days.
In a book published five years ago, Mr Onana described the idea that the Hutu government had planned a genocide in Rwanda as "one of the biggest scams" of the last century.
His lawyer, Emmanuel Pire, insists that Mr Onana does not question that genocide took place, or that Tutsis were particularly targeted.
Mr Pire told the AFP news agency that the book in question was "the work of a political scientist based on 10 years of research to understand the mechanisms of the genocide before, during and after".
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