Musa Qazimi
Musa Qazimi was an Albanian politician and rebel. A
Turcophile mufti, he was first the mayor (1904-1908), then the mufti (1908-1913), and finally the prefect of Tirana (1913-1914). In the turbulent period after
the Albanian declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire, he was first a supporter of the
Young Turks, then of
Essad Pasha. After he broke with Essad Pasha, he defected and became a leader in the sectarian, reactionary and clerically tinged pro-Ottoman
revolt against the new Albanian state's authorities. While the official head of the movement was Haxhi Qamili and the head of its armed forces was
Mustafa Ndroqi, Qazimi has been considered to be the ideological inspiration of the movement., and the "real leader" of the uprising. After the revolt was shattered by a makeshift alliance consisting of
Mirdita Catholics, local resistance,
Kosovar Albanians led by
Isa Boletini and some foreign volunteers mainly from
Romania, he was found guilty of orchestrating the slaughter that occurred during his revolt against supporters of the Albanian national movement as well as
Bektashis and Christians, and he was executed on July 7, 1915.
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