Statues of Gavrilo Princip rise in Serbia

Jul 16, 2015
A controversial statue of Gavrilo Princip has been built and unveiled in Serbia. Gavrilo Princip has been blamed for causing the outbreak of World War One when he killed the Austrian/Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914.

A year ago the house in which Gavrilo was born was restored and opened to the public. The Serbian people herald Gavrilo as a hero who fought for the people’s freedom. While many others in the region believe he was an assassin and the reason that the war started.

The statue of Gavrillo was unveiled this week, coinciding with the 101st year since the of the murdered the prince. Serbia’s president who accepted the statue from the Serb Republic region of Bosnia said that Gavrilo was a hero for the Serbian people and fought for their freedom.

The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I were about 40 million: estimates range from 15 to 19 million deaths and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history.

The total number of deaths includes from 9 to 11 million military personnel. The civilian death toll was about 8 million, including about 6 million due to war-related famine and disease.  The Triple Entente (also known as the Allies) lost about 6 million military personnel while the Central Powers lost about 4 million. At least 2 million died from diseases and 6 million went missing, presumed dead.

Russian casualties were the most catastrophic: according to United States War Dept, total mobilized force 12,000,000. Total casualties 9,150,000 (including Killed and died 1,700,000, wounded 4,950,000, prisoners and missing 2,500,000).
World War One led to the destruction of the Russian Monarchist Government, a chaotic Civil war and the bloody establishment of a communist experiment over Russians. Thank you Gavrilo Princip, the Hero of Serbia!

Masson Gavrilo Princip, the national hero of serbs

Gavrilo Princip was said to be part of a world-wide plot by the Freemasons. Erich von Ludendorff, the Chief of the German Staff, called Princip a “Jew” and alleged that he was part of a Freemason plot in collusion with Austrian, German, and Hungarian Freemasons. Julius Streicher’s official Nazi Party periodical Volkischer Beobachter in a January 8, 1936 article stated that Princip was “a Jew and a Freemason”. On April 6, 1941, on the occasion of the German invasion of Yugoslavia, Adolf Hitler, Austrian by birth, alleged that Gavrilo Princip was part of a plot organized by the British Intelligence Service and held Serbia responsible for the assassination.

Gavrillo Princip
Member of Black Hand Masonry
Assassin of Heir to Austro-Hungarian Throne
The Destruction and Slaughter of a Generation

During the trial of Archduke Ferdinand's killer, Gavrillo Princep testified that his colleague, Ciganovich, "told me he was a Freemason" and "on another occasion told me that the Heir Apparent had been condemned to death by a Freemason's lodge." Moreover, another of the accused assassins, Chabrinovitch, testified that Major Tankositch, one of the plotters, was a Freemason.

Mary Edith Durham
The Sarajevo Crime, pages 85 - 86
George Allyn and Unwinn, Ltd.
London, 1925

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