Kuala Lampur, Nov. 15 -- On November 19, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will deliver its judgment in The Gambia v. Myanmar, a case concerning Myanmar's alleged violations of the Genocide Convention. For our Rohingya community, this is more than a moment in international law. It follows decades of persecution and nearly ten years of waiting for the world to acknowledge what we have known: that we have endured a campaign of destruction because of who we are.

Yet, the conversation is being pulled away from the people whose lives are at stake.

In September, a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Orde F. Kittrie and Andres B. Munoz-Mosquera warned that the ICJ could lower the legal threshold for establishing genocide in the Rohingy...