Aung San played an instrumental role in bringing about the country's independence from British colonial rule.

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Kenya's struggle for independence from British colonial rule centred on the fight for land.

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Zimbabwe had lost a "real revolutionary" who had fought British colonial rule, he said.

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Its history in Myanmar, then called Burma, stretches back to 1862 when the country was under British colonial rule.

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His father, an Omani, was the Governor here for over a quarter of a century under British colonial rule.

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In 1930, there was a scheme to blow up the club as part of the campaign against British colonial rule.

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British colonial rule was almost gone: some newly independent countries kept the queen as head of state while others ditched her altogether in favor of a president.

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She is at the head of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, which has ruled India for most of the time since the country gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947.

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Mr. Najib said last year the government planned to eventually abolish the Sedition Act, which was introduced in 1949 during British colonial rule, and replace it with new laws that would strike a better balance between allowing freedom of speech and ensuring public stability.

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MDC, the British government and white homosexuals bent on bringing back colonial rule.

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