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Sarajevo: The slaying that set off World War I

By Aida Cerkez
Published June 19, 2014 7:26am ET
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Sarajevo: The slaying that set off World War I
In this Feb. 5, 2014 photo, Gavrilo Princip's relatives, Nikola Princip, right, and his grandson Novak Princip,16, pay their respects at the Princip family plot in a cemetery in the village of Obljaj, near Bosansko Grahovo, 300 kilometers west of Sarajevo, Bosnia. A century later, Gavrilo Princip still provokes controversy from beyond the grave as his legacy has been molded time and again to meet political agendas in the Balkans, still a patchwork of ethnic and religious rivalries. (AP Photo/Amel Emric) | Amel Emric

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A century after Gavrilo Princip ignited World War I with a shot from his handgun, the baby-faced Serb teenager who assassinated the Austro-Hungarian crown prince in Sarajevo in 1914 still provokes controversy.

His legacy has been molded time and again to meet political agendas in the Balkans, which remains a smoldering patchwork of ethnic and religious rivalries.

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