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Added to the possible cost of the court are the virtu-

ally unlimited obligations associated with Article 73 of the

ICC draft statute.  According to that article, the court

would not only try and convict international criminals but

also "recommend that States grant an appropriate form of

. . . rehabilitation" to the victims and witnesses of war

crimes.39  Because that could involve hundreds of thousands

of people in the future, the costs of Article 73 could prove

staggering.  Nevertheless, there is widespread support for

the measure.  For example, Human Rights Watch, a nongov-

ernmental organization that supports the formation of the

ICC, argues,

The ICC must be empowered to provide support . . .

to victims and witnesses.  Evidence from the In-

ternational Criminal Tribunals for the Former

Yugoslavia and Rwanda overwhelmingly indicates

that witnesses face serious security, psychologi-

cal, and medical concerns.  Victims of gender-

based crimes who testify may experience profound

stigma and shame.  For these reasons, HRW supports

the creation of a Witness Support and Protection

Unit within the Registrar's Office to protect the

physical and psychological well-being of witness-

es--particularly victims--and their family mem-

bers, before, during, and after trial proceed-

ings.40

Similarly, in a speech before the UN Preparatory Com-

mittee on the Establishment of an International Criminal

Court, Okali maintained,

Our experience in the Rwanda tribunal dealing with

the aftermath of the 1994 genocide has brought us

face to face with a different reality.  While

vigorously pursuing the suspects and other accused

perpetrators of the genocide and as we see and

hear witness after witness recounting the horrors

of that event, including women victims of gross

sexual violations, many of whom, after giving

testimony, turn to us with that awkward and plain-

tive question "What happens to me now?," we have

come to realize that in parallel with the efforts

to exact retribution on the perpetrators something

else needed to be done urgently to alleviate the

immediate plight of the surviving victims.  Assis-

tance to such victims in the form of medical