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For the Malay people, the fall of Malacca in 1511 was a catastrophe from which they still suffer today. As Raffles noted in 1823:1
The European policy which first destroyed the independence of their most respectable states and subsequently appropriated to itself the whole trade of the Archipelago, left them without the means of honest subsistence, while by the extreme severity of its tortures and punishment, it drove them to a state of desperation. Thus piracy became honourable, and that devotion which on another occasion would have been called a virtue became a crime.
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Hickling, H. (1991). Malaysia. In: Butler, D., Low, D.A. (eds) Sovereigns and Surrogates. Cambridge Commonwealth Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11565-5_8
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