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Thu Jul 10, 2014 6:41 pm
I just went to follow Bill Bailey on twitter and was told I'd been blocked from following him! I wonder what I did to earn such impotent wrath?
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Fri Jun 27, 2014 9:11 pm
Bosnian Serbs unveil statue of assassin who incited World War I
AFP
June 27, 2014
Sarajevo (AFP) – Gavrilo Princip is known around the world as the man whose actions sparked World War I. But for many of his fellow Bosnian Serb countrymen, he is a hero, not a villain. In a ceremony to mark the centenary of the war on Friday, Bosnian Serbs unveiled a two-metre bronze statue of Princip, whose assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28 2014, set world powers on a devastating collision course.
Several hundred people attended the unveiling in Eastern Sarajevo to honour a man viewed by Bosnia Serbs as a nationalist hero who fought for the freedom of Slavic countries. “We have been inspired by Gavrilo Princip … We have, and we will always fight for freedom,” said Nebojsa Radmanovic, a Serb member of Bosnia’s joint presidency.
Wildly differing interpretations of 20th-century history endure in a region scarred by the conflicts that marked the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. And the figure of the archduke’s assassin is particularly divisive. Bosnian Serb politicians, as well as officials from neighbouring Serbia, have...
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Fri Jun 27, 2014 4:10 pm
hmm, I'm not sure - the way they describe people simply as "homeless" bugs me. It feeds the notion that they're intrinsically different. Like being giants or midgets or something,
