![]() Riots 28 June 1914 Oskar Potiorek, the Austro-Hungarian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, incited anti-Serb riots. The police and local authorities in the city did nothing to prevent the anti-Serb violence. The following day, anti-Serb demonstrations in the city became more violent and could be characterised as a pogrom. The first anti-Serb demonstrations, led by the followers of Josip Frank, were organized in early evening of 28 June in Zagreb. ![]() They were organised and encouraged by Oskar Potiorek, the Austro-Hungarian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina who had been responsible for the security of the Archduke and his wife on the day of the assassination. Pogroms against ethnic Serbs were organised immediately after the assassination and lasted for days. As Princip's co-conspirators were mostly ethnic Serbs and members of an organisation of Serbs, Croats and Muslims called Young Bosnia ( Serbo-Croatian: Mlada Bosna), which was dedicated to South Slav union, the Austro-Hungarian government soon became convinced that the Kingdom of Serbia had been behind the assassination. On the night of the assassination, countrywide anti-Serb riots and demonstrations were organised in other parts of Austria-Hungary took place, particularly on the territory of modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. ![]() In the aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the 19-year-old Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip, anti-Serb sentiment ran high throughout Austria-Hungary and resulted in violence against Serbs. Numerous houses, shops and institutions owned by Serbs were razed or pillaged. Two Serbs were killed on the first day of the demonstrations, and many others were attacked. Encouraged by the Austro-Hungarian government, the violent demonstrations assumed the characteristics of a pogrom, which led to ethnic divisions that were unprecedented in the city's history. The anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo consisted of large-scale anti-Serb violence in Sarajevo on 28 and 29 June 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. More than 100 Serbs arrested on suspicions of supporting the assassins of Franz Ferdinand Numerous houses and buildings owned by Serbs Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-HungaryĪnti-Serb sentiment in the aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinandīosnian Muslim and Croat population in Sarajevo, encouraged by the Austrian authorities A crowd gathered around piles of destroyed Serb property in Sarajevo, 29 June 1914
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