![]() ![]() One of Princip’s group threw a bomb at their car, but missed. The revolutionary cell decided to target Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria when he and his wife Sophie visited Sarajevo on Jto inspect the Austro-Hungarian armed forces. “I am a Yugoslav nationalist, I want all Yugoslavs to be united, in any political form, and I want them to be free from the Austrians,” Princip said at his trial. Gavrilo Princip, Teenage AssassinĪ Bosnian Serb and the son of a postman, Princip was born in 1894 in Obljaj in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was annexed by the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1908.Īfter he moved to Belgrade, he joined a militant group called Young Bosnia that believed that it could use violence to help free the region from Austro-Hungarian rule and unite the Southern Slavs. We should blame Serbia for the war,” he insisted.Īs Balkan countries prepare to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War I this summer, each of them is teaching their children a different interpretation of the killing that set the conflict in motion. “They did what they did on the orders of Serbia. ![]() ![]() Mehmedovic, a Bosniak, said he had no doubt that Serbia was responsible for the murder. “Those people were terrorists – Gavrilo Princip and the rest of them,” said Salih Mehmedovic, standing at the spot by the Latin Bridge in central Sarajevo where the young Bosnian Serb Princip shot dead Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary 100 years ago – an assassination that sparked four years of devastating conflict. ![]()
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