Janko Jolović

Janko Jolović (January 14, 1897 in Bandin Odžak - September 1942 ), was a Yugoslav partisan and the first president of the Regional National Liberation Committee in Rogatica.

Biography

Early life Janko was born on January 14, 1897, in Bandin Odžak on Glasinac plateau near Sarajevo.

Public and political engagements At the outset of the Second World War, Janko was among the first partisans fighting Germans, with a goal of defense and ultimately liberation of people regardless of their religion and ethnicity.

He is listed as a member of the leadership of the KPJ and SKOJ in Sokolac - as part of the organ of the revolutionary movement before the armed uprising. Janko's party task was to organize forest workers in Romanija. On that occasion, Hasan Brkić stayed with him on several occasions, with whom he arranged the organization of URS woodworkers' unions.

The following were chosen for the headquarters of the Romanija company, which had to expel the Ustashe and gendarmes from the region: Slaviša Vajner Čiča (company commander), Pavle Goranin Ilija (commissioner), Oskar Danon Jovo (assistant commander), Danilo Đokić (assistant commander), Slobodan Princip, Mihailo Obrenović and Brnako Milutinović "Obren" (staff members).

During the night of September 11, he was caught in a shepherd's hut on Bandina Odžak, by the Chetnik Dobrica Đukić and his Chetnik group. The Chetniks wounded his wife Ljubica by stabbing her multiple times with a bayonets, and Janko was kept tied to a spruce tree for four days. On the fifth day, Dobrica Đukić and Dušan Vuković took him under the Romanija Cliffs, a steep karstic rock face featuring a deep jama (cave) called Zvek or Bezdan, they tortured him and threw him alive into the pit.

Legacy A street in the Sarajevo neighborhood of Dobrinja bears his name.