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"The assassination on Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was an attempt by this group to halt the fight against organised crime," the government statement said.

Vojislav Kostunica, former Yugoslav president and long a rival of Mr Djindjic, said he was appalled by the attack. "The fact that political violence is happening... is a terrible warning about how little headway we have made on the path of real democratisation of our society," he said just before Mr Djindjic's death was confirmed.

He later dismissed the incident as a "futile effort" which could not stop democratic reforms.

Spurning the Communists, he returned to Belgrade in 1989 and co-founded the Democratic Party, joining other reformists to campaign against the authoritarian rule of Slobodan Milosevic.

I am not seeing information to support the government's "organized crime" claim... What am I missing?

Unfortunately this article doesn't state his efforts against organized crime. He was coming down pretty damn hard on the mafia. Also you have to remember he was the guy that was brought/or was bringing the old crown to justice. I'm sure they were exactly happy(Milo's party) that he was rounding them up and bringing them to international justice.