Within a decade, Sudan secured independence.
In the past 20 years, only four countries have secured independence: Timor-Leste, Montenegro, Kosovo and South Sudan.
In their campaign to secure independence from France, the Algerian National Liberation Front resorted to terror.
He devoted his first term in office to securing independence from Britain and used that prestige to win five more elections.
While the unionists have to win every time to preserve the UK, the Nationalists only have to win once to secure independence.
India and Pakistan have been locked in a dispute over the Himalayan region since the two countries secured independence from Britain in 1947.
Sixty-five yeafterfter his death, the ideas of Gandhi, who was shot dead in Delhi by Hindu extremists in January 1948, just six months after India secured independence from Britain, remain hugely important.
Around 20 years ago, I was involved in the process of negotiations that followed the Madrid conference, an early attempt to start a peace process, in an effort to secure independence for Palestine and the rights of its people.
The document has been associated with the coronations of Pippin in 754 and Charlemagne in 800, as well as with papal efforts to secure independence from the Byzantine Empire or to undermine Byzantine territorial claims in Italy.
Mr. Ardzinba was criticized for his autocratic policies, his poor human rights record and a determination to secure independence for Abkhazia that led to what Georgian leaders called genocide.
