How does
one commemorate an assassination? The story of Bosnian commemorations of the event
which sparked the world war is as colorful and full of controversy as the assassination
itself. (And, as you will see, the 100th anniversary commemoration
mirrors this ambivalence.)
For a full account of the first 100
years of commemoration WITH PICTURES, see: http://historyandthesockmerchant.blogspot.com/2010/12/commemorating-sarajevo-assassination-of.html (Be sure to scroll down past the rather
misleading heading at the top of the webpage.)
Commemorations
on that site in Sarajevo have ranged from the Austro-Hungarian “Monument to
Murder,” placed at the site by the still-ruling imperial government on June 28,
1917 (exactly three years after the event) to the Tito-era glorification of the
assassination as representing “a protest against tyranny and the centuries-old
aspiration of our peoples for freedom” to the current neutral “on this place….”
plaque. As you will see, all of these lines of thought – and more! – went into
the rather bizarre events in Sarajevo on the 100th anniversary of
the assassination on June 28, 2014.
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