![]() The concert, however, competed with World Cup football and Wimbledon tennis for the attention of Sarajevans. Technicians prepared a midnight musical on the bridge near where he fired the fatal shot. “The admission of Bosnia to the bloc means fresh blood, fresh air and Europe’s second chance for redemption.” For visitors to the city, guides offered tours of the key locations on the day Princip killed Ferdinand. Intervention came too late for the 100,000 who died. ![]() It ended on Friday with a petition calling for Bosnia’s admission to the EU, a dream held hostage to sectarian rifts.Įurope “is a place where populism and nationalism are on the rise”, said Levy, who lobbied for Western intervention to end the war in Bosnia. French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy chose Sarajevo to premiere his play, “Hotel Europe”, a monologue on crisis in Europe. Leaders of the 28-member European Union marked the centennial on Thursday in Ypres, the Belgian city synonymous with the slaughter of the war, papering over divisions born of economic crisis and growing support for the anti-EU right. They planned to re-enact the murder in the eastern Drina river town of Visegrad, seared into the memory of Muslim Bosniaks for a wave of ethnic cleansing by Bosnian Serbs early in the 1992-95 war. Leaders of Serbia and the Bosnian Serbs, who consider the assassin a hero, boycotted the Sarajevo events, angered by what they say is an attempt to link the wars that opened and closed the 20th century, and to pin the blame on them. Still dealing with the aftermath, Bosnia’s former warring communities greeted the centennial deeply at odds over Princip’s motives and his legacy. Sarajevo closed the century under siege by Bosnian Serb forces during Yugoslavia’s disintegration. The murder set the Great Powers marching to war more than 10 million soldiers died and empires crumbled, sowing the seeds for World War Two and much of the strife now wracking the Middle East. The concert, carried live by dozens of European broadcasters but attended by only a select elite, recalled the days of the Habsburg Empire, in the city that hastened its demise with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by 19-year-old Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip. ![]() REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ANNIVERSARY SOCIETY POLITICS CONFLICT) Sarajevo marked 100 years on Saturday since the murder of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand that lit the fuse for World War One, with a concert by the Vienna Philharmonic offering a message of unity to a divided country and a continent tested by social and economic strife. Austrian President Heinz Fischer speaks during a news conference in Sarajevo City Hall on the 100th anniversary of the Sarajevo assassination, June 28, 2014. ![]()
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