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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Kenya is a country suffering from what she calls chronic land hunger, a problem which first surfaced during colonial rule but which has never been properly addressed since independence in 1963.
Since the modern nation state's founding in 1932, Thailand has been served by a constitutional monarchy and is the only country in Southeast Asia to avoid coming under European colonial rule.
Aceh enjoyed a long period as an independent sultanate until it was occupied by the Dutch in 1871, and even then it continued to fight against colonial rule right up to the second world war.
History: "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " by Fredrik Logevall (Random House), a balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.
Most important, Singapore is stuck with colonial era corporate laws, including that 75% rule.
The new proposed constitution recognizes the pre-colonial right of the indigenous people to their territory, to autonomy and to self-rule.
The United Nations has never recognised Indonesian rule there, leaving East Timor as one of the unfinished items on the world's post-colonial agenda.
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