The question is whether it can fight the current one. Rape is overwhelmingly not being charged as an act of genocide. Our case named them and established a legal claim for them under international law. A forum in which survivors choose their own lawyer, shape their own claims, and direct their own case leaves the process of justice substantially in their own hands. The ITY is not accountable to survivors by design or in practice.
Survivors have no decisive voice in it.
Woman after woman has been willing to risk standing up in public to testify about her own rape in our civil case. It is not because we have more than twenty million dollars to conduct their case, or a better system to guarantee their security, although we do take security more seriously because we take the people involved more seriously. The reason is not because we are more sensitive to their personal needs or to the nature of their injuries, although we are. The reason is that this case is their case. We are working for them, they are not working for us.