The case was the first ever prosecuted exclusively on crimes of sexual violence before an international tribunal and contains a number of progressive contributions to the jurisprudence of rape as a war crime.
25 该案件是国际刑事法庭专门以性暴力罪提出起诉的第一个案件，因此，对将强奸定为战争罪的法理学作出了一些渐进的贡献。