Finnish police on Thursday arrested a Rwandan man living in Finland suspected of taking part in genocide in Rwanda in 1994, Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said Thursday.

The National Bureau of Investigation has kept the men under surveillance since the beginning of this year. The arrested man is suspected of involvement in planning, managing and carrying out mass murder in Rwanda in 1994.

Chief Inspector Thomas Elfgren of the National Bureau of Investigation said the arrested man is a Hutu leader of the Rwandan Baptist Church. He applied for asylum in Finland in 2003.

The NBI has been investigating the case in cooperation with justice officials in Rwanda and the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Preliminary investigations will be carrying on for several months more.

Source: Xinhua