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Three persons indicted for killing 90 Serbs in Trnovo

SARAJEVO/BELGRADE - Prosecutor of the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) issued an indictment against two Bosniaks and one Croat for involvement in the killing of at least 90 persons of Serb nationality in the wider area of Sarajevo's Trnovo municipality.

RS leader: Autonomy now, independence later

RS leader: Autonomy now, independence later

ANDRIĆGRAD -- Milorad Dodik says the Serb people in Bosnia will continue fighting for autonomy, hoping that the political process will eventually result in the independence.

He made the remarks on Saturday, St. Vitus Day (Vidovdan), during the opening of the cultural and historical complex dubbed Andrićgrad.

Bosnia Marks World War One Centennial

The concert by the Vienna Philharmonic in the recently re-opened Vijecnica, the historic Sarajevo City Hall, was the central event to mark the centenary of the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.

Few hundred people could follow the the concert in a plateau on the other side of the river of Miljacka.

 

 

Monument to Gavrilo Princip unveiled in East Sarajevo

Monument to Gavrilo Princip unveiled in East Sarajevo

SARAJEVO -- As part of events marking 100 years since the outbreak of WW1, a monument to Gavrilo Princip has been unveiled in the newly built city park in East Sarajevo.

The statue was cast in bronze and is two meters tall, the work of Belgrade-based sculptor Zoran Kuzmanović.

Gavrilo Princip described as "man who lived for ideals"

Gavrilo Princip described as "man who lived for ideals"

SARAJEVO -- The shot that echoed in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, was not a shot fired at freedom, but at the occupiers, Gavrilo Princip's nephew, Nikola Princip, has said.

He spoke ahead of the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

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