Chapter 146: The End of Autocracy
Shemsi Pasha was the Ottoman General chosen to pacify the uprising in Albania led by the Young Turk revolutionary leader Ahmed Niyazi Bey. Currently, he and his men were passing through the Macedonian city of Monastir.
In an effort to discourage recruitment for the Union and its forces. Shemsi Pasha had begun to tell Albanian Muslims that the Young Turk movement was massacring them, and on his journey to the region had picked up a small number of Albanian volunteers to aid with the two battalions of Ottoman Troops he had brought into the region.
Though the Ottoman General did not realize it, his personal bodyguard, the Albanian volunteers, and even the two battalions beneath his command were more or less in league with the Young Turks. Frankly speaking, Shemsi Pasha was a dead man walking. He just didn't know it yet.
And because of this, he was walking right into a trap, organized in part by the men beneath his command, the men who had sworn to protect him. Because of this, he and his men stopped in the city of Monastir. Particularly with the purpose of sending a telegraph to troops in Albania to make ready for their punitive expedition.
The telegraph was sent, and the orders were received, and because of that, the Ottoman General rather conceitedly stepped out of the Telegram station with a smug smirk on his face. His words were equally arrogant, entirely unaware of what fate had in store for him.
"Well... Gentlemen, this is our last stop before our campaign begins. By my estimates, this little rebellion will be put down before the month even expires. So, shall we get a move on?" The guards were not looking at their general, rather the man who had approached him in the streets, who Shemsi Pasha was currently entirely unaware of as he was looking at his bodyguards. It was not until he felt a tap on the shoulder, and turned around, did he realize what was happening.
Before he could say another word, the stranger who had approached him in the street pointed a pistol to his face and said a single phrase before pulling the trigger.
"General Shemsi Pasha, the Union sends their regards!"
*bang!*
The Ottoman general was shot square in the forehead, his dead body dropping to the ground as his bodyguards reacted by unslinging their rifles and firing in the general direction of the assassin, who had begun running off into the distance.