Question

Was the assassination of the Archduke justified or unjustified?

Answer 1

• It is unjustified because it allowed Austria to exploit it in order to declare war on Serbia and launch WW1, despite Gavrilo Princip and the Black Hand acting without authority and against the Serbian government's interests. In WW1, over 10,000,000 Europeans and 1,250,000 Serbs died.

• It was justified because Franz Ferdinand's presence in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, the national Vidovdan for Serbs commemorating the battle of Kosovo Polje (June 1389), was unconstitutional and disrespectful to the Serbs living there as Austria's presence in the area since 1878. Despite the fact that it was the Serbs, not the Austrians, who liberated Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Ottoman savages.

Answer 2

Unjustified

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