> Serbs across the Balkans sought to create a Pan-Serbian state This is not correct, after all the countries that were created after WW1 and then again after W

> Serbs across the Balkans sought to create a Pan-Serbian state This is not correct, after all the countries that were created after WW1 and then again after WW2 were "Yugoslavia", not "Serbia". In both of these countries ethnic nationalism (be it Serb, Croat or Bosnian) was suppressed by the authorities, even using violence or by putting such opposition behind prison bars. In the second version of Yugoslavia after WW2 not even ethnic nationalism but even religion has been viciously oppressed as it was the only thing remaining that separated Croats from Serbs and so on. Also Young Bosnia (the organisation that planned and executed the assassination) did not have a Pan-Serbian state as the goal, but instead a Pan-Slavic state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Bosnia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Bosnia Creating a Pan-Serbian state would also have never made any sense, as there is no way to successfully integrate Croats and Bosnians in such an experiment.