Young Bosnia

A monument to Gavrilo Princip was unveiled on Sunday in Belgrade in the presence of Serbian and RS presidents Tomislav Nikolic and Milorad Dodik.

Princip was a member of the Young Bosnia (Mlada Bosna) movement in the early 20th century, who on Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day, June 28) 1914 in Sarajevo assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Serbia’s president unveiled a statue of Princip, whose murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand helped to spark World War I, saying that the assassin tried to liberate Balkan countries from slavery.

A monument to Gavrilo Princip will be placed by June 28 in Financial Park in Belgrade, City Manager Goran Vesic has announced.

The park is located between Nemanjina, Sarajevska, and Admirala Geprata streets.

A monument dedicated to Gavrilo Princip, whose murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand helped to spark World War I, will be inaugurated in the Serbian capital later this month.

BELGRADE - "Ex Ponto", an exhibition that follows the wartime fates of Young Bosnia members and Belgraders in 1914, opened at Belgrade's Kalemegdan Fortress on Monday as part of events commemorating the outbreak of World War I.

BELGRADE - An exhibition entitled Not so Long Ago... Fellow Citizens, which shows the life of Young Bosnia members before the Sarajevo assassination of Austro-Hungarian prince Franz Ferdinand, will be opened at Belgrade's Kalemegdan fortress on Tuesday as part of the programme marking the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One.

PRAGUE - Serbian Minister of Labor, Veteran and Social Affairs Aleksandar Vulin talked with his Czech counterpart Michaela Marksova in Prague on Friday about mandatory community work for benefit claimants.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Monday that Gavrilo Princip had acted in defence of his country when he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, a form of counterattack against the symbol of the monarchy that had taken away his country's freedom.

The Serbian premier praised the fight to liberate the country from Austro-Hungarian rule during World War I, but plans to unveil a monument to Sarajevo assassin Gavrilo Princip were shelved.

BELGRADE - Today marks 100 years since the June 28, 1914 assassination at Sarajevo of Archduke of Austria-Este Franz Ferdinand that Austria-Hungary used as an excuse for invading Serbia and starting World War One.