Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.21857/mnlqgc0gey
The role of the Kingdom of Serbia in the assassination in Sarajevo and the outburst of World War One
Tihomir Rajčić
orcid.org/0000-0002-6386-1532
; Split, Croatia
Abstract
In this paper, the author tackles the issue of the role of the Kingdom of Serbia in the assassination in Sarajevo and the outburst of World War One, this issue still being a rather pressing matter. The author primarily examined the Belgrade intelligence web in Bosnia and Herzegovina, into which threads of the government in Belgrade, its organisation "National Defence", as well as organisations that were not under its direct control – the "Black Hand" and "Young Bosnia" – were interwoven. It is characteristic for all of them that they feared the incomplete and controversial reform ideas of Franz Ferdinand, Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, whereby trialism provoked the most aversion and fear; in the words of Geoffrey Wawaro, the Serbian party saw this as the creation of the "Great Croatia, Roman-Catholic super-state". This would have not only put a stop to the realization of the Greater Serbia, but also, for a longer term, initiated the process of the absorption of Serbia in the reconstructed Habsburg Monarchy. After the assassination in Sarajevo, the government in Belgrade did not have much choice. Pašić neither could nor wanted to conduct a thorough investigation as demanded by the government in Vienna. Since he dreaded Apis and the "Black Hand", and since this would have disclosed the Belgrade intelligence web, the only thing that remained was the cover-up tactics. Thus, the level of liability of the Kingdom of Serbia for the assassination in Sarajevo and the outburst of World War One reflects itself first and foremost in creating a terrorist intelligence web and covering up the co-liability for European crisis, which exploded following the assassination in Sarajevo.
Keywords
THE ROLE OF THE KINGDOM OF SERBIA IN THE ASSASSINATION IN SARAJEVO AND THE OUTBURST OF WORLD WAR ONE
Hrčak ID:
191150
URI
Publication date:
20.12.2017.
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