Vaso Čubrilović

Who was Vaso Čubrilović?

Vaso Čubrilović was a Bosnian Serb politician and scholar. In 1914, he was a student in Sarajevo, when Danilo Ilić recruited him and his friend, Cvjetko Popović, to help assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His brother, Veljko Čubrilović, was also involved in the plot. Like Princip, he was a member of Young Bosnia, an underground organisation with the aspiration of the creation of a southern Slav state free from both Ottoman and Habsburg influence.

He lived until the year 1990, dying at the age of 93 as the last surviving participant in the conspiracy to assassinate the Archduke.