A statue of a Bosnian Serb nationalist whose assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 101 years ago sparked World War I, and who is seen here as an icon of Serb patriotism, was inaugurated here Sunday. The two-meter (6.6-foot) high bronze statue of Gavrilo Princip was unveiled in a park in downtown Belgrade and the event was attended by several hundred people, according to an AFP photographer. ‘Princip was a hero, a symbol of ideas of liberty…. Others may think what they want,’ said Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, who attended the event. Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, whose entity gave the statue to Belgrade as a gift, was also present. The statue by a local sculptor is the same as the one unveiled in Bosnia’s Serb-run Sarajevo suburb last year. Princip, who was just 19 when he shot the archduke in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, remains
