THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Dutch police have arrested a Rwandan immigrant and charged him with war crimes and torture for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide that tore apart his home country, a prosecution spokeswoman said Thursday.

Prosecutors identified the man as 38-year-old Joseph M. and said he was a brother of another man, identified only as Obed R., who has bee the Kibuye region,” the Dutch national prosecutor’s office said in a statement. “He is alleged to have ordered the killing of Tutsis that were dragged out of an ambulance.”