Janković, Gojko fr

Country of proceedings: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Context of crimes: Former Yugoslavia (Foča)
Date: 2005 - 2007
Keywords: Crimes against humanity (murder, enslavement, deportation, illegal detention, torture, rape/sexual violence)

Case no. X-KR-05/161

Court documents
14-02-2006 - Indictment
27-06-2006 - Indictment
16-02-2007 - First instance verdict
23-10-2007 - Second instance verdict

Presentation of the case
Gojko Janković was the leader of a military unit within the Foča brigade of the Army of the Srpska Republika BiH, Gojko Janković participated in a widespread and systematic attack of the army, police and paramilitary formations on the non-Serb civilian population of the Foča municipality between April 1992 and November 1993.

In pronouncing its verdict, the Trial Panel stated that in July 1992, Janković commanded a group of soldiers who attacked Muslim civilians hiding in the forest in the Kremnik hill. On several occasions between mid-June 1992 and January 1993, Janković raped female detainees and, together with Dragoljub Kunarac, he kept two of them in sexual slavery throughout this period. On 16 February 2007, the Trial Panel of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) found Gojko Janković guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 34 years’ imprisonment.

The Appellate Panel partially upheld the defence appeal, and modifying the Trial Panel’s verdict in the legal qualification of the acts constituting crimes against humanity. The First instance verdict remains unchanged in the remaining parts, including the long term imprisonment of 34 years.

Gojko Janković was originally indicted together with Radovan Stanković, Dragan Zelenović, Dragan Gagović, Janko Janjić, Radomir Kovac, Zoran Vuković and Dragoljub Kunarac before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The Janković case was referred to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 15 November 2005.

Additional information
Case information sheet

Press releases
19-11-2007 - Appellate Panel hands down the verdict in Gojko Janković case
16.02.2007 - Gojko Janković sentenced to 34 years long term imprisonment
19-07-2006 - Gojko Janković pleaded not guilty
04-07-2006 - New indictment in the Gojko Janković case confirmed
21-04-2006 - Main trial opened in the Gojko Janković case
16-03-2006 - Gojko Janković pleaded not guilty
07-03-2006 - Plea hearing in the Gojko Janković case postponed
20-02-2006 - Confirmation of indictment in the Gojko Janković case
08-12-2005 - Gojko Janković transferred to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Additional Documents
Janković case before the ICTY

Commentary
"The Foča 'Rape Camps': A dark page read through the ICTY's jurisprudence", by Matteo Fiori