A statue of Gavrilo Princip is seen after an opening ceremony in East Sarajevo, June 27, 2014. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Serbs in Bosnia unveiled a statue on Friday of the man who shot dead the heir to the Habsburg throne a century ago, thumbing their nose at the country's official commemoration of the act that triggered World War One.
The 2-metre (6.6 feet) bronze statue of Gavrilo Princip, unveiled by the Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, underscored the gulf between Bosnia's Serbs, Croats and Muslim Bosniaks in how they view the assassination that lit the fuse for the Great War.
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