At the ICTR in 2002 , Robinson was assigned as Lead Counsel for Joseph Nzirorera , the former President of the Rwanda National Assembly and Secretary of the ruling National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development MRND political party during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Nzirorera 's first trial began in 2003 and ended in a mistrial in 2004 after Robinson 's motion to disqualify the Trial Chamber was granted . Nzirorera 's second trial began in 2005 and he died in 2010 near the end of the defence case
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Peter Robinson (lawyer)