This week marks a special anniversary. It was 100 years ago that archduke Francis Ferdinand was shot dead in sarajevo. The assassination sparked the First World War. Bosnia was part of the austriahungary a hungarian empire. A serb nationalist shot the archduke and his wife dead from up close. A short while later, austria declared war on serbia, and europe was plunged into a terrible war which was to last for long years and would enter history books as the First World War. Decades later in the 1990s, war raged again in the balkans between bosniaks, croats, and serves serbs. The differences between the ethnic groups still exist today, and it becomes particularly clear now that the world is commemorating the assassination 100 years ago. That was when this bridge went down in history as the place where archduke Frantz Ferdinand of austria was assassinated. These days, it is a tourist attraction. 100 years ago, this month on the 28th of june the assassin, a serbian from bosnia, was sentence
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