But there’s one subtle difference in the protest in Novi Pazar, a town of some 100,000 people and seat of the ethnically mixed Sandzak region that straddles the borders of Serbia, Montenegro and ...

In the southwestern Serbian town of Novi Pazar, Bosniak and Serb students alike say the demands of nationwide student protests transcend the ethnic and religious divisions of the past.

In late 1993 and early 1994, police violence increased in Sandzak, a heavily Muslim-populated region straddling Serbia and Montenegro. Police there used the same tactics as their counterparts in ...