City of A Famosa symbolize Portuguese glory and safety throughout 130 years they conquered Malacca . However, in regards of building up this city, Malays had suffered greatest price loss of dignity and self-esteem that can not be substituted for life. Can you imagine when tombs of the Sultan of Malacca since the Annals , Megat Iskandar Shah Sultan Muhammad Shah , Sultan Abu Shaid , Sultan Muzaffar Shah , Sultan Mansur Shah , Treasurer - treasurer of the famous Malacca , the relations of the Sultan of Malacca , and the chiefs of state of Malacca in the surrounding Melaka Sultan's palace ( now Bukit St. Paul ) being lost, destroyed and tombstones were used to build the city of A Famosa owned by Portuguese at that time. Their action were just so cruel and offensive.
On the way
The situation back then
The situation was becoming more heartbreaking when Alfonso de Albuquerque , the Portuguese military commander in that time had ordered that any markings associated with the city of Malacca, to be destroyed and burned without further compromise .
Imagination during 1511
In order to build city of A Famosa , each single of tombstone , unloaded , all the bones excavated from tombs of the Sultan of Malacca and ruthlessly destroyed by them. Because of Alfonso's madness , Malacca Sultanate Palace of nature 's most beautiful archipelago at the time was burned, old books since Megat Iskandar Shah (1400-1424) were thrown into the fire. This is sadness as we have already lost apart of our identity of origin.
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