The hangover of disillusionment that followed independence in many third world nations sowed the first doubts about what "liberation" might mean.

In the year immediately following independence, the number of students rapidly increased.

Relations with the Soviet Union were cordial in the years immediately following independence.

Following independence in 1961 elections were held in 1962 to elect 20 members to the constitutional convention.

People began to horde food and hole up in their apartments, remembering the chaos of civil war that followed independence in 1991.

Partition and the bloodshed that followed independence in 1947 changed everything.

A further change in coin and banknote design followed independence in 1977.

Following independence, left and right within the ethnic majority have been fiercely opposed to each other.

The bloody civil war and the chaos that followed independence in 1991 were over.

The hospital was established in 1972, immediately following independence.