Today, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) rendered the first instance verdict in the Section I for War Crimes case of Gojko Janković, finding the Accused guilty of Crimes against humanity and sentencing him to 34 years imprisonment.

The Trial Panel found that as a leader of a military unit within the Foča brigade of the Army of the Srpska Republika BiH, Gojko Janković participated in a widespread or 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, inter alia the following:

On 3 July 1992, Gojko Janković commanded a group of soldiers who attacked Muslim civilians hiding in the forest in the Kremnik hill.  During the attack, three civilians were killed and several were wounded. Seven men and 30 women and children were captured.  Following the interrogation and brutal beating of the captives, Gojko Janković and soldiers under his command shot the seven captured men.   

Between mid June and mid August 1992, the Accused inter alia on several occasions raped a female detainee who was detained in the Partizan sports hall in Foča. 

On 2 August 1992, together with Dragoljub Kunarac and Dragutin Vuković, the Accused took three minor female detainees from a house in Aladža to a house in the village of Trnovača.  One of the detainees was held in the house  for a few days while the other two were held until January 1993.  During that time the Accused and Dragoljub Kunarac kept these two detainees in sexual slavery.

The Accused was inter alia acquitted of participating in the rape of a female person in the period between 7 April and May 1992. 

The time the Accused has spent in custody from 14 March 2005 will count towards his sentence.