Serbia was an independent nation in 1914 and had been for many decades. Not all Serbs, however, lived within its boundaries.
Princip was an atheist anarchist motivated by hatred for Christianity.
Do you have a link showing this?
Everything I've read about him indicates he was a Yugoslav nationalist. The attack was planned and carried out by a rogue faction within the Serbian government, for whom Princip worked.
There were an amazing number of anarchists, of a variety of ideologies. running around the later 19th and the early 20th centuries. Assassination was a favorite tool. They have pretty much disappeared down the memory hole, with communism and fascism showing up.
But most of the anarchists would have scrupled to work for a government like that of Serbia.
They really haven’t even disappeared. Anarchist thought is alive and well at the young edge of the American leftist movement. WTO protesters, the occupy crowd,,, they are out there still.
>> Serbia was an independent nation in 1914 and had been for many decades. Not all Serbs, however, lived within its boundaries. <<
Yes, what I meant was that Princip wanted to liberate the rest of the Serbs. Actually, he wanted to liberate all of the South Serbs (”Yugoslavs,” including Bosnians, Croats, Slovenes, Bulgars and Serbs), but I’m quite certain that my Slovene ancestors would have told him and his ilk to pound sand; Slovenes and Croats were Catholics, like the Austro-Hungarians and would have never voluntarily formed a union with the Serbs, which is why Milosevic killed so many hundreds and thousands of them.
>> Everything I’ve read about him indicates he was a Yugoslav nationalist. The attack was planned and carried out by a rogue faction within the Serbian government, for whom Princip worked. <<
He absolutely was a Yugoslav nationalist. Those two assertions are in no way contradictory. But where the Black Hand was Masonic, and Young Bosnia was strictly political, Princip was mostly animated by anti-Austrian hatred, which he associated with the Catholic Church.