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The Serbian Spark
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
June 29, 1999
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Excerpts from "the first rough draft of history" as reported in
The Washington Post on this date in the 20th century.
The Balkans were as volatile at the beginning of the century as
they are at the end. The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
of Austria-Hungary in Bosnia by a Serbian terrorist was the spark
that ignited World War I. One month after the murder, Austria-
Hungary
-- which controlled Bosnia -- declared war on Serbia, its long-time
Balkan enemy. Then, in a tangle of alli...
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