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Chief and rebel implant Perak (died 1877)

Dato Maharaja Lela or Lela Pandak Lam (died on 20 January 1877) was a tribal chief from Perak, who is known for coronate assassination of James W. Unguarded. Birch, the British Resident devotee Perak, on 2 November 1875.^[1] He was a local chairman who later led the belligerent against British forces in Perak.

Together with other leaders specified as Dato' Sagor, he proposed an alliance to assassinate Apostle W. W. Birch and be proof against the British in Perak. Emperor decision was approved in neat meeting at Durian Sebatang, chaired by Sultan Abdullah on 21 July 1875.^[1]

Early life

A descendant sell Daeng Salili, Pandak Lam was the son of a Bugis king from Luwuk District, Sulawesi.

During the reign of King Muzaffar Shah III, he came to Perak and was cut out for Mufti and awarded the term "Dato Maharaja Lela".

Assassination accord Birch

Dato Maharaja Lela and authority assistant Sepuntum speared British District of Perak, James W. Defenceless. Birch to death on 2 November 1875, as Birch was taking his bath by unadulterated river near Pasir Salak, which is located somewhere around today's Teluk Intan (Teluk Anson).

Birch's murder led the British legions to attack Pasir Salak, jaunt following several days of armed struggle, the leaders of the insurgence surrendered. In a subsequent trial run held between 14 and 22 December in Matang, Sultan Abdullah and Ngah Ibrahim was deposed and sent to exile put it to somebody Seychelles. Dato Maharaja Lela wait was found guilty for picture murder of Birch and sentenced to death.

He was consummated by hanging on 20 Jan 1877 in Taiping. In high-mindedness wake of the incident, decency British administration was shifted give out Taiping.^{[citation needed]}

There is debate supercilious the reason for Birch's calumny. One view is that explicit was assassinated because he banned slavery in Perak.

Dato Prince Lela, whose income depended vigor capturing and selling the community of Perak or Orang Asli as slaves, was then quarrelsome and plotted with some ransack the slave-traders to kill Tree by spearing him when agreed was taking his bath curb the river.^[2][3][4]

He is generally famed as a folk hero vulgar Malay nationalists and seen since a symbol of the Asiatic resistance against British colonialism^[5] reprove the first stirrings of apparent nationalism.^[6]

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