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.
Zimbabwe had lost a "real revolutionary" who had fought British colonial rule, he said.
Diplomats argue that the country's civil service has inherited the competence of British colonial administrators.
In St James, just north of the capital, Bridgetown, a sun-bleached eight-bedroom manor oozes British colonial charm.
It began with a group of British colonial officers and expats looking for ways to ease their weekend hangovers.
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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We met in his office in the Secretariat building that was the seat of British colonial power here until 1947.
He wrote and directed a couple of TV dramas, including the mini-series Kuala Selangor XI, set during the British colonial era.
Most of India's laws, including those on rape, were inherited from the country's former British colonial rulers and date to 1860.
Then, in the early twentieth century, British colonial authorities imposed a tax on the Zulus that had to be paid in cash.
This is a long-standing law inherited from the British colonial government.
In 1905, the British colonial government began to protect the area amid concerns that widespreadhunting had brought the number of rhino down to only a dozen animals.
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.
After all, it was British colonial rulers who, at partition in 1947, drew the boundary line between India and Pakistan that the two nations have battled over ever since.
But this place truly is the sort of spot where the island's many identities - Malay, Chinese, Indian, British colonial, modern tourist - thread together into a beautiful knot.
Comparisons to the British colonial tycoon, Cecil John Rhodes, who established the Rhodes Scholars program in 1902 to bring scholars to Oxford University to study, were quickly and easily made.
At one construction on a river in Charsadda, built by the British colonial government, more than twice the volume of water of the previous record flood, in 1929, gushed in, snapping off its gates.
After the first post-dictatorship democratic elections in 1999, 12 of the northern Muslim states adopted sharia law, putting an enormous strain on the unity of a Nigerian state that had previously been run only under the secular, civil law bequeathed to it by British colonial rulers.
The Kashmir problem is part of the aftermath of the British partition of colonial India.
But De Beers , founded by British-born colonial expansionist Cecil John Rhodes in 1880, never let that happen.
Spurned by the British as a colonial, from an uncouth continent, he exacted the perfect revenge: he colonized their imagination.
Investigations have recently covered the behaviour of British soldiers and colonial officers in Kenya and the secrecy of the Saudi state.
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The group focused on an initial 189 buildings in need of protection, mainly 19th-century synagogues, mosques, monasteries and colonial British structures.
His aspirations foundered on the rocks of British and French colonial ambition, notably the twin reefs of the notorious Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 and the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
We began our conversation with that controversial truce in Pakistan's semi-autonomous territories, a region Musharraf says the Pakistan government, like the colonial British before them, has not been able to govern.
"I've been talking about the new Silk Road for years, " says Chu, whose clipped English accent is the legacy of British schooling in colonial Hong Kong and a university education in London.
The fare is traditional British, with colonial breakfast classics such as kedgeree alongside smoked salmon and toast or scones and jam, all of which can be washed down with a pot of tea, expertly prepared coffee -- or even wine if you wish to haul the experience back across the channel to France.
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