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[[File:SKIDANJE TITA.jpg|thumb|250px|Drašković with [[Vojislav Šešelj|Šešelj]], in 1990, removing picture of [[Josip Broz Tito]] from Belgrade Center of engineers and electricians.]]
In March 1989, Drašković along with [[Mirko Jović]] and [[Vojislav Šešelj]] founded the Sava Association. The group dedicated itself to the protection of the Serbian language and the defense of [[Kosovo and Metohija]].<ref name="Fischer">{{cite book |last1=Fischer |first1=Bernd Jürgen |title=Balkan Strongmen: Dictators and Authoritarian Rulers of South Eastern Europe |date=2007 |publisher=Purdue University Press |isbn=978-1-55753-455-2 |page=459 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMZaPjrHqYYC&pg=PA459}}</ref> In the late 1980s, Drašković was in agreement with Šešelj's sentiments about deporting Albanians from Kosovo and suggested that "a special fund" was needed "to finance the [[Yugoslav colonisation of Kosovo|repopulation of Kosovo by Serbs]]".<ref name="Mulaj139">{{cite book|last=Mulaj|first=Klejda|title=Politics of ethnic cleansing: nation-state building and provision of in/security in twentieth-century Balkans|year=2008|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=9780739146675|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sGQVdG63WPYC&q=Vojislav&pg=PA69|pages=139}}</ref> However, Jović, Šešelj and Drašković soon found themselves at political crossroads and their party disintegrated in three pieces. The Sava Association turned into the [[Serbian National Renewal]] Party under the leadership of Jović in January 1990.<ref name="Fischer" /> Meanwhile, Drašković founded the [[Serbian Renewal Movement]] (''Srpski Pokret Obnove'', SPO), a democratic nationalist party in March
On 26 September 1990, Drašković declared that his armed "volunteers" would be willing to defend [[Republic of Serbian Krajina|Krajina Serbs]] while three days later in an interview with [[Delo (newspaper)|Delo]], Drašković stated: "Serbia must obtain all territories in what is today [[Herzegovina]], [[Bosnia (region)|Bosnia]], [[Slavonia]], [[Dalmatia]], in these parts of Croatia where the Serbs made a majority of the population until 6 April 1941, when the Ustasha genocide against them began...Wherever the Serb blood was shed by the Ustashas knives, wherever there are our graves there are our borders".<ref>Lenard J. Cohen, Jasna Dragovic-Soso; (2007) ''State Collapse in South-Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on Yugoslavia's Disintegration'' p. 270; Purdue University Press, {{ISBN|1557534608}}</ref> Also he claim that most of Muslims are ''"burdened with Serbian origin"'' and that ''"they run away from themselves because they know that they are Orthodox and Serbs"''.<ref>Safet Bandažović; (2019) Nedovršena prošlost u vrtlozima balkanizacije p. 50; Centar za istraživanje moderne i savremene historije, Tuzla [https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=812147]</ref> The Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) participated in the first post-communist democratic elections, held on 9 December 1990, but finished a distant second amidst the total blackout from the pro-Milošević state media.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Carol J. |title=Profile : A Modern-Day Rasputin Leads Serbian Nationalists : Vuk Draskovic has a cult-like following. Some say he's taking Yugoslavia to civil war. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-07-wr-1632-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=7 May 1991}}</ref> Following that failure Drašković kept the pressure on Serbian President [[Slobodan Milošević]] via street protests, organizing mass [[9 March 1991 protest|demonstrations in Belgrade on 9 March 1991]]. The police intervened, and clashed with demonstrators with some damage to public buildings resulting in the [[Yugoslav People's Army]] having to be brought in. Clashes between police and protesters resulted in two deaths, one student and one officer and injuries to over 200 people.<ref>{{cite web |title=March 1991 protest anniversary |url=https://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2007&mm=03&dd=09&nav_id=40041 |website=B92.net |publisher=B92 |date=9 March 2007}}</ref> Demonstrations ended after the Milošević government agreed to concessions.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Harden |first1=Blaine |title=Yugoslav Regime Bows to Protesters |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/03/13/yugoslav-regime-bows-to-protesters/fdd1ab04-2342-4502-b97a-e12a056bf894/ |work=The Washington Post |date=13 March 1991}}</ref>
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