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Rwandan independence from Belgium in 1962. Before independence, the ruling colonial powers, first Germany and then Belgium, controlled Rwanda by continuing to use the existing Tutsi ruling ...
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Bougainville - The long struggle for freedom
Francis O'Neill, April 1994 In the 18th and 19th centuries the European colonial powers embarked upon a splurge of colonisation within the Asia-Pacific rim. The imperialists were after ... the status quo for the "fatherland". Germany and Britain do a dealThe contention between the colonial powers as to their properties and spheres of influence within the Pacific became such a serious ...
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Bougainville (Do or Die)
In 1966 the colonial administration of the Territory of Papua and New ... colonial powers and merged with a people from far away, from a land with different culture and different aspirations. This error of the colonial ...
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Tar Production in Colonial North America
History Tar Production in Colonial North America Mikko Airaksinen Environment and History 2(1996): 115-125 It was only natural for the large countries and colonial powers of the 18th century to ... of these areas, however, but also other aspects of the environment: political, military, economic and colonial. To illustrate this, we will examine the example of tar-making. Reprints of this article ...
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The International Grid - 8 July 1995 - No. 1985 Weekly £1.70 - New Scientist, GLOBAL POWER: The electric hypergrid - Transmission - Technical Articles - Index - Library - GENI - Global Energy Network Institute
During the l950s, the colonial powers in Africa created several international dams. Besides Mozambique's Cabora Bassa dam, built by the ...
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Rwanda
Colonial powers imposed discriminatory social and bureaucratic structures on the Africans, favouring with ... Colonial powers established and confirmed such ethnic ‘difference’ and consequent snobbery, and thus unsettled the socio-economic system which, with language and culture, Hutu and Tutsi had shared for centuries. Colonial powers ...
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The CAUSES of RAINFOREST DESTRUCTION
The colonial powers (Britain, France, Spain and Portugal), whilst exploiting the resources of many of these countries, ... and exploiting resources for short-term gain. Corruption in government, the military and economic powers is well known' (Orams & McQuire). The problem is made worse by the low price ...
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Papua New Guinea
Contents: 1. Natural History 2. Indigenous Culture 3. Colonial History 4. The Rainforests of PNG: Present Situation 5. Australian Aid to PNG 6. Looking ... the nineteenth century. The main island of New Guinea was split into segments by the colonial powers, with the Dutch controlling West Papua, and the Britain and German controlling the east. In ...
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While the US Interior Dept loses royalties, Bolivia raises its rate
Bolivians had been ruled by colonial powers and their descendants. Well into the twentieth century, indigenous groups were effectively deprived of a ...
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What's New - Global Policy Forum
They dispense services in a spirit of “charity and pity” as puppets of “neo-colonial” powers. NGOs rely on their funding partners in a paternalistic relationship where foreign “true friends” – as ...
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