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I'm by no means an expert on this, but my understanding is:

* The British has done plenty to stoke up division between different ethnic groups as part of their 'divide and rule' policy.

* Britain could have used its troops to help ensure a peaceful transition, but decided not to.

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Well, suppressing dissent using the military is kind of the opposite of granting independence, isn't it? There's no way to both say "you are now independent, we no longer will interfere" and then immediately quash violence with a massive military crackdown.

As for stoking up division via divide-and-rule, that's a very subjective claim of the sort we should treat with suspicion. Clearly, the tensions didn't decrease once British rule ended, they ramped up drastically.

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