Hapsburg Kin Visit Sarajevo Site
On Sunday’s fifth anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war, descendants of the former Hapsburg rulers visited the site where their ancestor Archduke Francis Ferdinand was shot, triggering World War I.
“This is the place where all tragedies began,” Otto von Hapsburg said in the Bosnian capital, site of the June 1914 assassination by Gavrilo Princip, a Serb who opposed Austro-Hungarian rule of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
“The tragedies which started at that place should be stopped there too,” said Hapsburg, in reference to the bitter ethnic divisions in Bosnia. He was accompanied by his son Karl.
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