Anti-Serb sentiment
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Anti-Serb sentiment or Serbophobia refers to negative attitudes, prejudice or discrimination towards Serbs as an ethnic group. Historically, it has been a basis for the persecution, ethnic cleansing,
The Skull Tower in Niš. Following the Battle of Čegar (1809), it was built from the heads of massacred Serbs by the order of the Ottoman general Hurshid Pasha.
WWI A Starved Serbian Prisoner of War, taken by an Italian factor in Austria
Austrians executing Serbian civilians (1917)
WWI Young Serbian civilians assassinated in the sight of their mothers by Austro-Hungarian soldiers
Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo
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Anti-Serb riots, consisting of large-scale violence against Serbs, occurred in Sarajevo on 28 and 29 June 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Encouraged by the Austro-Hungarian g
Anti-Serb sentiment
…mood before the outbreak of World War I. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg in 1914 led to the Anti-Serb pogrom in Sarajevo. Ivo Andrić refers to this event as the "Sarajevo frenzy of hate." The crowds directed their anger principally at Serb shops, residences of prominent…
Oskar Potiorek, the Austro-Hungarian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, incited anti-Serb riots.
Josip Štadler agreed to eradicate "subversive elements of this land".
Main street of Sarajevo (today's Marshal Tito street)
Baščaršija, near the Bezistan