Hero?

From the DW:
"Gavrilo Princip, assassin who sparked WWI, gets statue in Belgrade"

Serbia has unveiled a monument to the man who sparked the chain of events leading to World War I. Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 has a divisive legacy in the Balkans.  Gavrilo Princip, whose two-meter bronze likeness was unveiled before a crowd of hundreds in central Belgrade still fuels controversy in the ethnically-divided Balkans. Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic described Princip as a freedom fighter and a hero. "Today, we are not afraid of the truth," Nikolic said. "Gavrilo Princip was a hero, a symbol of the idea of freedom, the assassin of tyrants and the carrier of the European idea of liberation from slavery," Nikolic told the crowd. To the many outside of Serbia who view Princip as a terrorist, Nikolic said, "others can think what they want." Princip, a Serbian nationalist opposed to the Austrian-Hungarian empire's occupation of his country, shot dead Ferdinand, heir to the imperial throne, on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo, precipitating the chain of events that sent Europe tumbling into World War I. Austria held Serbia responsible for the assassination of the Archduke, and with the support of Germany, Austria attacked Serbia, whose allies, Russia and France, were soon entangled in the conflict. The Ottoman Empire, Britain and later Italy and the United States also joined the fighting. Princip's legacy has long been a source of controversy in the Balkans, a region still sharply divided along ethnic and religious lines, and which emerged from an ethnically fueled war in the 1990s that followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. Serbs in Bosnia regard Princip as a hero, while the nation's Croats and Muslims widely view him as a killer and nationalist who sought to have Bosnia occupied by Serbia. At the outbreak of World War I, most Muslims and Croats preferred to stay a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Sarajevo last year marked 100 years since the assassination, but Serbian and Bosnian Serb leaders shunned the event on account of Princip's divisive legacy. World War I would eventually cost some 14 million lives, including 5 million civilians and 9 million military personnel. Princip was arrested immediately after the assassination and died in captivity a few months before the war ended in what is now the Czech Republic.

^ This is a difficult issue. On the one hand he is seen as a hero (mostly to the Serbs) who wanted to free his country from Austro-Hungarian Empire. On the other hand, his actions led to a World War where millions upon millions of innocent men, women, and children suffered and died. Had the assassination merely resulted in the violence being controlled to the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire it would have been seen as a war for freedom, but since it engulfed the whole world it is seen by most as a terrorist act. Serbia needs to be careful on whom they honor because what they may consider heroes could be viewed by the rest of the world as terrorists or war criminals - especially if they start honoring the Serbs and Bosnian Serbs that were involved in the Bosnian and Croatian Wars of the 1990s. ^

http://www.dw.com/en/gavrilo-princip-assassin-who-sparked-wwi-gets-statue-in-belgrade/a-18546305