I personally find it very funny that it took seven people to kill the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. Overall these people did not deserve to dies. They were harmless, and did not do anything cruel to these young men. These young boys were very foolish and thought that they were doing a good deed by killing the Duke and his wife.
All of these young men were educated, were in school, and all but one was under the age of 18. The main target was Gavrilo Princep who was a high school student, (nerd) and as the article said, a part-time assassin. (Lol) All of these men joined the secret society called, "The Black Hand."
What makes this killing, or should I say, attempt to kill the Arch Duke funny, is that most of the boys failed terribly. How are they suppose to be apart of a secret society and fail at their missions and goals? (That shows how tough they really are!) Mehmed Mehmedbasic chickened out when attempting the assassination. He bragged about tit but he really did nothing! Vaso could not find the stomach, Cvetko Popovic also chickened out, Nedelko Cabrinovic had no aim and instead, he aimed at a neighboring car that injured many.
The only boy that succeeded was Gavrilo Princip who shot twice and killed the Arch Duke and his wife, Sophie. I personally think that he should have served life in prison instead of twenty years. But it is understood that he was under the age of 21 so he could not serve a life sentence. Also, the rules and regulations of that time differed from our forms of law today!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Reflections on Balkan Blunders
Posted by ~Cheekies~ at Thursday, March 26, 2009
Labels: Balkans
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