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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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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