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Bogdan Žerajić
Bosnian attempted assassin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bogdan Žerajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Богдан Жерајић; 1 February 1886 – 15 June 1910) was a Herzegovinian Serb student of the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb.
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Born | (1886-02-01)1 February 1886 |
Died | 15 June 1910(1910-06-15) (aged 24) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary |
Resting place | Vidovdan Heroes Chapel, Sarajevo[1] |
Occupation | Student |
Known for | Being a source of inspiration to Gavrilo Princip |
In 1910, he attempted to assassinate General Marijan Varešanin, the governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the opening day of the Austro-Hungarian Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina since he believed it to be illegal and illegitimate. His attempt was his own initiative as an act of personal revolt against Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2]
Žerajić was the first in Bosnia and Herzegovina to pursue tyrannicide as a method of political struggle. His act had great impact on the youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the official press in Sarajevo and Belgrade generally referred to it as an act of a disturbed lunatic, which was also generally the view of the older generation of Sarajevo Serbs.