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Esat, the son of Ali bey Toptan, was born in Tirana around 1860. His brother, Gani bey, was four years older. Since childhood, he was distinguished by his bad and hot-tempered character. His older brother was no less so and their father was the first victim of their bad character. One day they covered him with a mat soaked in oil and threatened to burn him. In fact, Ali bey was not mentally well. When he grew up, Gani bey behaved in Tirana like a real cub, instilling terror among his friends and enemies.
Then he received orders to go to Dibër, but according to the instructions given by the tyrant, he was stopped outside the city of Durrës, taken to Esat's estates and there they killed him by beating him with sticks, after they had put him in a sack! We do not want to discuss here the issue of the help that Esat Pasha had given to the Serbs during their retreat and whether this help was an exclusive deed that interested the tyrant, or rather a disinterested action of the Albanians themselves.
Esat, in his memoirs, which the newspaper "Koha" published two days after his death, wants to take all the credit for himself and for this he did not hesitate at all to blaspheme his nation. This was the true character of Esat, for whom nothing existed and should not exist outside of his person.
It is a fact that Esat's fate was linked to that of the Serbs, his allies and benefactors, and as such, he was forced to leave Albania and seek refuge in Thessaloniki, where he continued to hold himself out as the head or chairman of the Albanian Government, a title he had assumed during the brief and temporary dictatorship he exercised in Durrës.
In Thessaloniki, Esat was treated well by the Greeks and French, but was especially protected by the Serbs, who gave him a monthly pension of 200,000 francs for the expenses of his so-called government, since he had around him several people who took ministerial titles as well as his famous "camp".
There is no reason to speak ill of the Albanians who made up his camp and who, after all, were brave, sincere and honest people, but the same cannot be said of their chief, who thought only of himself, while his soldiers thought more of their homeland.
These people did not act at all out of the appreciation and consideration they had for Toptan. On the contrary, Esat's presence in Thessaloniki can rightly be considered an unfortunate incident and did not create any confidence in the Albanians. Witnesses are the Albanians of Korça, who have cooperated loyally with the French troops, but who have persistently requested that Esat not set foot in Albania again.
Thus, the inhabitants of Gjirokastra fought alongside the Italian troops, thus serving the cause of the Allies and the independence of their homeland. During his stay in Thessaloniki, a very scandalous stay, his house, as it was said, was a real hotbed of disorder, a house of gambling and corruption.
Young men of Thessaloniki, in order to escape military service, received from the Pasha certificates of Albanian nationality and food... etc., which the intendancy handed over to the Pasha for the troops of his camp, who sent them to their favorites, or to retailers. Furthermore, a scandal occurred, that of paying the camp, which the Pasha demanded in gold, but which was delivered to the soldiers in banknotes.
Mr. Fontenay and Mr. Krajewski, whom the Republic had appointed to Essat, must know something about this subject. They wanted to treat Essat as a loyal ally of France, without considering that our hero never accepted obedience. He was an egoist, possessing to a high degree the "damned egoism".
First of all, especially when it comes to his person, what is ignored is the fact that when the outcome of the great battle seemed doubtful to him, he tried to approach the central empires and began to enter into relations with the Ottoman legation in Bern. This is nothing extraordinary for a man of his mold, given the fact that after betraying Abdyl Hamit, the Young Turks and the Albanians, he finally betrayed the Italians and became their enemy in order to go over to the Serbian camp.
But the chance began to wear thin. It was first England, which, responding to a call from the House of Commons, declared that it did not recognize any official function of Esat (1918); then, around the end of the year. France severed all ties with him and Krajevski was summoned.
At the beginning of 1919 Esat came to Paris; he had no official function, since in the meantime a government had been formed in Albania and a delegation had been sent to Paris, which did not prevent our Pasha from giving himself titles as head of the Albanian government and head of the delegation. His life in Paris could be easily known: His girlfriend cost him more than 2,000,000 francs in pleasures, automobiles, etc., not counting the waste of water in the cities.
But why does he use this time and the title of the head of the Albanian Government and the Albanian delegation, which he assigns to himself? Did he ever raise his voice when his country was threatened with division? No. He entertains himself, intrigues against his country, thinking only of himself.
Initially, in May, four Albanians: Imizot Koleci, Catholic Bishop, Bajram Veizi, Fuat Bey Toptani and Ymer Bey Shijaku, went to Paris to talk to Esat and tried to penetrate his thoughts once again. The last two Albanians, out of the four, stayed at the “Continental” hotel, where Esat himself was staying, and all four had many meetings with the latter, who constantly declared that:
1- Serbia i jepte një pension mujor, për shkak të simpatisë që kjo qeveri kishte për të, por se këto shuma nuk ishin aspak një borxh i Shqipërisë.
2- Nuk kishte asnjë konventë ndërmjet vetë Esatit dhe Malit të Zi.
3- Në të kundërtën, ai u kishte premtuar serbëve një korrigjim të kufirit në favor të tyre dhe të bashkimit doganor e ushtarak. Esati u bë kaq naiv, sa e dorëzoi vetë tekstin e marrëveshjes së tij me Jugosllavinë, ashtu sikurse është paraqitur nga një memorandum i kësaj Mbretërie, në Konferencën e Paqes.
Hasan Rizai në fakt ishte vrarë nga Osman Bali, por ai pretendonte se kjo nuk ishte bërë aspak me urdhër të tij. Nga ana tjetër, kur ai nuk dinte ku ishte dhe xhindosej, betohej të hakmerrej me të gjithë armiqtë e tij politikë, nëse do të arrinte ndonjëherë të shkelte në Shqipëri.
Por ai e dinte mirë se nuk mund të shkonte në Shqipëri, sepse do të ndalohej, do të gjykohej dhe do të varej. Italia u akuzua pa të drejtë, se e kishte bërë të pamundur kthimin e tij në Shqipëri. Gjë që njihet pak është fakti se Esati kishte pasur gjatë katër muajve të fundit takime të fshehta me agjentët italianë, Kostoldi, Gali dhe Lodi, dhe se ai ishte gati të ndërronte kamp.
Ta linte Serbinë për Italinë dhe në këtë nuk ka asgjë të jashtëzakonshme, aq më tepër mbasi urrejtja për qeverinë shqiptare të Tiranës, urrejtje që italianët dhe Esati e kishin në të njëjtën masë, e bënin bashkëpunimin e tyre krejt të natyrshëm.
P.S. – Disa hollësi për karakterin e tij:
Esati dhe Ganiu ishin martuar me dy motra të familjes Toptani, kushërira të tyre: Esati u martua përsëri me një turke, pasi kishte harxhuar pasurinë e gruas së tij të parë dhe duke mos u shqetësuar aspak për të dy vajzat e tij. Një ditë, ai takoi përpara shtëpisë së tij në Tiranë një vajzë të sjellshme, të cilën e pyeti se e kujt ishte. “Jam vajza jote”, – iu përgjigj fëmija i pafajshëm. Me dokumente false, ai siguroi pronësinë mbi pasuritë e kushëririt të tij, Selim Pasha.
Në Janinë, ai syrgjynoste njerëz të rëndësishëm, për t‘i detyruar të paguanin haraç. Kështu u internuan Mustafa Pasha, Omer Efendi dhe shumë të tjerë. Pasi urdhëroi vrasjen e Hasan Riza Beut në Shkodër, ai i dërgoi fjalë Alush Lohjës, se ishte gati t‘i paguante nga xhepi 300 lira turke, kujdo që do ta denonconte vrasësin.
Për vrasjen tragjike të Nexhat Efendiut, ai nxori një qarkore ku thuhej se Nexhati ishte arratisur me një shumë të madhe që ai e kërkonte dhe i premtoi një shpërblim atij që do ta zbulonte.
Biografi e Mit’hat Frashërit:
Lindi në Janinë në 25 mars të vitit 1880 dhe vdiq në 3 tetor 1949 në New York, SHBA. Ishte i biri i Abdyl Frashërit dhe nipi i Sami Frashërit dhe Naim Frashërit. Ai e njohu shumë pak babain e tij dhe u rrit nën kujdesin e Samiut dhe Naimit. Edukimin akademik e mbaroi në Stamboll. Pas mbarimit të shkollës, deri në vitin 1905, punoi në administratën turke dhe më pas kaloi në Selanik, në administratën shtetërore.
He began to be active in Albanian politics at the end of the 19th century. One of the most prominent figures in Albanian politics in the first half of the 20th century. In 1908, he began publishing the newspaper “Liria” in Thessaloniki. During this period, he collaborated closely with Kristo Luaras, who ran the printing house/publishing house “Mbrothësia”.
He participated in the Congress of Manastir, also known as the "Alphabet Congress", on November 14-November 22, 1908. Mit'hat Bej Frashëri was elected chairman of the Congress and vice-chairman of the Commission for drafting the alphabet (the chairman of the Commission was Father Gjergj Fishta).
At the age of 32, he finally left Istanbul and traveled to Albania, passing from Kosovo to Skopje and then to Elbasan. In 1912, in the independence government created by Ismail Qemali, he was elected Minister of the World. On March 30, 1913, he resigned from his post. He welcomed the arrival of Prince Vid in Albania and assisted in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After Prince Vid's departure, Mit'hat Frashëri left Albania and until 1918, lived in several Balkan countries.
In 1916 he settled in Bucharest, where he was arrested by the police and exiled to Moldova. In 1918, at the end of World War I, he was allowed to leave and settled in Lausanne, Switzerland. There he addressed a memorandum to the conference at which the creation of the Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom was being prepared. In the memorandum he declared; “Without the solution of the Albanian problem, there will be neither a new Yugoslavia nor a final solution of the borders in the Balkans”.
In 1920 he settled in the USA. He returned to Albania in 1922. In January 1923 he began his duties as Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Albania in Athens. He held this position until December 1925. Disappointed by the political developments in Albania, he resigned and declared his retirement from political activity. In 1927, he began publishing the magazine “Dituria” in Tirana and founded the bookstore “Lumo Skëndo”.
In 1939, after the occupation of the country by fascist Italy, he decided to return to political activity. In 1941, he was the main ideologist and one of the founders of the Nationalist Party, better known as the "Partia e Ballit Kombëtar". An opponent of the Communist Party of Albania, he was forced to leave Albania in November 1944 and settle in Italy. During a trip to New York, USA, he died as a result of a heart attack./ Memorie.al
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