Aung San played an instrumental role in bringing about the country's independence from British colonial rule.
Kenya's struggle for independence from British colonial rule centred on the fight for land.
It was here at this school where opposition to colonial rule first took hold.
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Zimbabwe had lost a "real revolutionary" who had fought British colonial rule, he said.
French colonial rule was handed over to a cosy coalition, which became the Socialist Party.
Until the end of French colonial rule in 1956, Tunisia's Jewish community numbered 100, 000 members.
Decades ago this was where freedom fighters opposed to Japanese colonial rule read out a charter of independence.
Xie Jin's The Opium War, was released to coincide with the end of colonial rule in Hong Kong.
This system is not at all dissimilar to colonial rule at the time the Joint Declaration was signed.
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.
Libyans were slave-trading until the 1930s and, under Italian colonial rule, they saw themselves as Mediterranean, calling Africans chocalatinos.
MDC, the British government and white homosexuals bent on bringing back colonial rule.
In 1930, there was a scheme to blow up the club as part of the campaign against British colonial rule.
Thousands of artefacts were spirited out of Egypt during the period of colonial rule and afterwards by archaeologists, adventurers and thieves.
Like other countries that emerged from colonial rule in the last century, Indonesia struggled and sacrificed for the right to determine your destiny.
Mr Tsang may have picked up on the theme or perhaps he is drawing on a vein of paternalism left over from Britain's colonial rule.
Mr Hollande's predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, also acknowledged that France's 132-year colonial rule was unjust on his first visit to the country five years ago.
Yet peaceful resistance to colonial rule has been growing for years.
The main country-creating force has been the end of colonial rule above all in sub-Saharan Africa, which now has 48 independent states, more than any other continent.
Under land redistribution policies he started in 2000, Mugabe seized white-owned farms and gave the land to black Zimbabweans, saying they were cheated under colonial rule.
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The move marks the determination of President Marc Ravalomanana's government to underscore the island nation's economic independence 43 years after it broke free from French colonial rule.
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.
Every scenario for the origin of HIV has it taking place during the period of colonial rule in Africa, and taking place as a result of colonial practices.
Under Mr. Hollande and his two predecessors, the French government has attempted to transition out of a paternalistic role that is the legacy of centuries of colonial rule.
Vietnam has turned down a request to scatter the ashes of a French war veteran at the site of a battle which helped end colonial rule by France.
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.
Originally founded in the 16th Century by the Portuguese, work commenced in earnest on the fort in 1663 under Dutch colonial rule, when it became the country's primary port.
During the Japanese colonial rule over Korea (1910-45), many Koreans were conscripted into the Japanese army and munitions factories in Japan, and a considerable number of them remained there after liberation.
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