Sarajevo on Saturday marked 100 years since the assassination that triggered World War I, plunging Europe into the bloodiest conflict it had ever seen and redrawing the world map. With the people of the Balkans still deeply divided over the legacy of that fateful day, separate commemorations were to be held in Bosnia to mark the occasion. It was on a Sarajevo street corner on June 28, 1914, that a Bosnian Serb nationalist shot dead the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, setting off a chain of events that sucked Europes great powers into four years of violence unprecedented in its scale and intensity.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:30:13 +0000