Safeta Bisevac

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“Novi Pazarians protested and booed the premier because they were mad and furious with the government for many reasons. The health system did not react responsibly to the alarming increase in the number of patients, there were no tests, the patients were lying on the floor in hallways, the authorities were hiding the statistics of the number of infected and the death toll. Since [Novi Pazar] has a Bosniak [Muslim] majority, the president mentioned extremists. The coronavirus has nothing to do with ethnicity and religion. I believe the government is abusing the multi-ethnic and multiconfessional structure of Sandzak. There are politicians in Sandzak who sometimes give unacceptably sharp nationalistic statements, but there is no extremism or separatism in Sandzak. People just want better conditions for treatment.”

Aljazeera

Journalist of the Belgrade-based daily Danas