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‘Belanda minta tanah’.
That is a proverb regarding of a political treaty in the old days. ‘Belanda’ or the Dutch came to Java offering some ridiculous proposal that seemed to be greatly in favour of the local. In return the Dutch just want a piece of land as big as a buffalo hide, to plant the Dutch flag. The agreement was made in joy by both sides.
But then when the Dutch wanted to claim their land, they made a long rope out of that buffalo hide and encircle a very very very wide area. Sounds stupid isn't it?

On 11 August 1786, Captain Francis Light founded Penang by a treaty with Sultan of Kedah who was in a move to seek protection from the Burmese and Siamese threat.
Then in 1819, Stamford Raffles established Singapore through the formal treaty signed by a man who claimed to be the "lawful sovereign of the whole of territories extending from Lingga and Johor to Mount of Muar”. A matter of internal PTO.
And should I mention The Treaty of Pangkor as well?...

Nowadays those territories prosper greatly to the extend of international level. Thanks to the colonization. Even though we of the later generation live prosperously in those revolutionized territories, do you ever come across a monument or memorial erected for that Sultan Abdullah; or that less known Hussein Shah of Johore?
Hey, those people had rights for their political motives of those times, don’t you think so?

But people do remember Datuk Maharaja Lela, Mat Kilau, Tok Janggut any many more as heroes of those days.

Same cases through out the worl😛 Hong Kong, Macau, the collapse of the mighty Chinese Dynasty, The great Egyptian Empire; and perhaps in my future article of ‘THE LEGACY (PART 5)’, I’ll tell you my story on how the once great Malacca’s Sultanate got perished from this world.

SO, WHO DO YOU CHOOSE TO BE?...