On 22 January 2025 the Court issued a Decision partly confirming the Indictment issued by the BiH Prosecutor's Office in the case of Danko Kajkut (S1 1 K 050553 24 Kro), which charges the accused Danko Kajkut with the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity under Article 172 CC BiH, with the Decision becoming final on 24 January 2025.
According to the Indictment, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the armed conflict in the territory of Kotor Varoš municipality, between the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) on the one side and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) and the Croat Defense Council (HVO) on the other, between 10 June 1992 and at least mid-1994, in the framework of a widespread and systematic attack launched by the VRS against the Muslim and Croat civilian population in the Kotor Varoš municipality, knowing of the conflict but also of the attack, and that his actions form a part of the armed conflict and attack, knowingly and willingly, alone and together with other persons known to him, he committed an inhuman act of similar nature against the Muslim and Croat civilian population, with the intent to inflict great suffering or serious mental anguish, and committed and aided and abetted in the detention or some other serious deprivation of physical liberty, then committed torture and forced the Muslim and Croat civilians to sexual intercourse (rape). It is further said that the accused, in his capacity as Commander of the 1st Platoon, Special Police Detachment, failed to take the necessary and reasonable measures to prevent the torture and killing of civilians by his subordinate members of the 1st Platoon, Special Police Detachment, although he knew that his subordinates were preparing to torture and kill most of the civilians, and failed to take the necessary and reasonable measures to punish his subordinate members of the 1st Platoon, Special Police Detachment although he knew they had tortured and killed most of the civilians.