Mustapha Khaznadar

Mustapha Khaznadar (rear RTL مصطفىخزندار), born in 1817 in Kardamila (on the island of Tap-holes in Greece) and deceased the July 26th 1878 with Tunis, is a politician Tunisia N.

Captured with his/her brother in 1821, whereas his/her father is massacred, it is led to Izmir then Constantinople where it is sold like slave to an envoy of the Bey de Tunis. Raised in the beylicale family, he manages to rise at the second station of the Tunisian State.

Mustapha Khaznadar, become top dog, founds a deplorable financial policy for the country by imposing an extremely heavy taxation and by negociating loans in France. Moreover, exactions are operated by the governors of the cities and the chiefs of tribes. In 1864, the cities of the the Sahel as well as the tribes of the south-west of the country revolt with the cries of: “More constitution! More taxes! More Mameluke S! ”. The government wonders then if the Bedouin will not besiege Tunis so much the Insurrection gains ground. But the insurrectionists miss unity of view and from action and Khaznadar benefits from it to sow division among them. It charges the Zarrouk general with repressing this insurrection. Repression is pitiless in particular in the Sahel. The bey suspends the constitution 1861 and the rate of the tax is tiny room of half but Khaznadar and the Mamelukes, who have just saved the mode of the insurrection, remain with the capacity because they are more essential than ever for the sovereign.

Succeeding these events, a persistent Sécheresse falls down on the country. It is all the more disastrous as the food reserves are exhausted and that the men with the capacity did not take any measurement to stop its consequences. The Misère prevails in the country in 1867 and the Capitale is not saved: he dies from 100 to 150 people per day of Famine or the Typhus.

In these difficult circumstances, Mustapha Khaznadar diverts the treasure of the State to its own profit, starting from 1868, and in particular the municipal receipts. The budget of the municipality of Tunis east thus reduced to modest the Subsidy of the Habous. It is in 1873 qu ' takes place the fall of Khaznadar which controlled regency during 36 years. The general Kheireddine Pasha, then president of the international financial commission instituted by the bey in 1869, present at the sovereign, in an audience with the palate of the Bardo, a report/ratio of the aforesaid the commission showing Khaznadar to have diverted 2000 obligations representing 2 franc million. The evidence against Khaznadar is overpowering and this one must confess its culpability. Khaznadar offers its resignation then and is replaced by the Kheireddine general. In Tunis, the Public opinion is very favorably impressed by these events which one then describes as Révolution. Ceremonies of thanksgivings take place in all the Mosquée S, the Médina is illuminated during 3 days and the craftsmen and tradesmen of the Souk S testify their recognition towards the bey by the sending in Bardo to delegations and present. One also gives another rejoicing and horse-races. Isolated and haï from all, Khaznadar dies in 1878.

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