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It's worse than that. In many places they rigged elections before handing over power to make sure that the country was still under control of whatever group they chose. Often the minorities they handed power to started brutally oppressing other groups to stay in charge. This prevented those countries from becoming stable democracies for decades, fueled genocide and created terrorist groups like Boko Haram.