A digitalised image of the front page of the June 30, 1914 edition of the Bosnische Post, after the assassination of the heir to the Habsburg throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, is released to Reuters August 20, 2014. REUTERS/National Libary Sarajevo/Handout via Reuters
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A group of Balkan experts have launched a high-tech project to digitise Bosnia's historical archives which were partly destroyed during its three wars last century and are still under threat from neglect and a lack of funding.
The project promises to make available online a host of records and papers detailing Bosnia's turbulent past, most notably the events and atmosphere surrounding the 1914 Sarajevo assassination that triggered World War One.
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