What Greenland's 1979 home rule gave it, and what Denmark kept
A 1979 referendum gave Greenland its own parliament for internal affairs. Denmark kept defence, foreign policy and the constitution, and still does.
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Eritrean fighters took Asmara in 1991. The vote came two years on
Eritrea's 30-year war with Ethiopia ended when rebel fighters marched into Asmara on 24 May 1991. A UN-supervised referendum in 1993 made independence formal.
A vote on autonomy, and East Timor's road to independence
East Timor's 1999 UN ballot asked about autonomy within Indonesia, yet everyone read it as an independence vote. Violence followed, then a UN mission.
Barbados swapped the Queen for its own president in 2021
On November 30, 2021, 55 years after independence, Barbados swore in Sandra Mason as president and removed Elizabeth II as head of state.
De Gaulle was the hard-liners' hope. He let Algeria go
France called Algeria an integral part of the nation and fought from 1954 to keep it. The FLN won in 1962 by diplomacy, once de Gaulle negotiated peace.