THE AWARDEES

1. Dr Ram Baran Yadav, President of Nepal
2. Late Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, the Third King of Bhutan
3. Late president Leonid IIyich Brezhnev of Russia
4. Late president Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny of Russia
5. Late prime minister Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin of Russia
6. Late president Marshal Josip Broz Tito of former Yugoslavia
7. Late prime minister Sir Edward Richard George Heath of UK
8. Late prime minister Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala of Nepal

Recipients of “Friends of Liberation War Honour”
9. Mitra Bahini (India)
10. People of India
11. Michael Barnes (UK)
12. Ms Barbara Dasgupta (Germany)
13. Sunil Dasgupta (Germany)
14. Dr Rathin Datta, Padmasree (India)
15. Rajmata Bibhu Kumari Devi (Tripura, India)
16. Simon Dring (UK)
17. Julian Francis (UK)
18. Ms Arundhati Ghose (India)
19. IP Gupta (India)
20. Lt Gen (retd) Jack Frederick Ralph Jacob (India)
21. Lear Levin (USA)
22. Biman Mullick (UK)
23. Tsuyoshi Nara (Japan)
24. Manik Sarker (chief minister of Tripura, India)
25. Barrister Nora Shariff (Ireland)
26. Takayoshi Suzuki (Japan)
27. Father Richard William Timm (USA)
28. David Weisbrod (USA)
29. Dr William Greenough (USA)
30. Dr Kirsten Westergaard (Denmark)
31. Late Rear Admiral Sergey Pavlovich Zuenko and his team (Russia)
32. Late Debdulal Bandyopadhaya (India)
33 Late Dasharath Dev Barman (India)
34. Late Archer K Blood (USA)
35. Late Dilip Chakraborty (India)
36. Late Subrata Roy Chowdhury (India)
37. Late Senator Frank Forrester Church (USA)
38. Late DP Dhar (India)
39. Late Edward C Dimock Junior (USA)
40. Late Ambassador Anatoly Dobrinin (Russia)
41. Late Nikolai Firyubin (Russia)
42. Late Andrei Andreevich Gromyko (Russia)
43. Late Pjotr Kirillowitsch Koschewoi (Russia)
44. Late Yakov Alexandrovich Malik (Russia)
45. Late Bruce Douglas-Mann (UK)
46. Shaheed Lance Naik Albert Ekka (India)
47. Shaheed Father William P Evans (USA)
48. Reverend Father Eugine Homerich (USA)
49. Late John Kenneth Galbraith (USA)
50. Cornelius Edward Gallagher (USA)
51. Late Joseph Garst (USA)
52. Late PN Haksar (India)
53. Late Takashi Hayakawa (Japan)
54. Late Bhupen Hazarika (India)
55. Late Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (India)
56. Late Sean MacBride (Ireland)
57. Late Andre Malraux (France)
58. Late Field Marshal SAM Manekshaw (India)
59. Late Justice Syed Sadaf Abul Masud (India)
60. Late Gunnar Myrdal (Sweden)
61. Late Siddhartha Shankar Ray (Ex-chief minister of West Bengal, India)
62. Late Annada Shankar Roy (India)
63. Late Angshuman Roy (India)
64. Purno Agitok Sangma (India)
65. Late Rawshan Ara Begum Sangma (Mother of Meghalaya chief minister, India)
66. Senator William B Saxbe (USA)
67. Pandit Ravi Shankar (India)
68. Late Lord Peter David Shore (UK)
69. Dr Karan Singh (India)
70. Late Sachindra Lal Singh (India)
71. Late Sardar Swaran Singh (India)
72. Late Valdimir Stanis (Russia)
73. Richard K Taylor (USA)
74. Ms Anna Braun Taylor (USA)
75. Major General SS Uban (India)
76. Late Naoaki Usui (Japan)
77. Shaheed Father Mario Veronice (Italy)
78. Akashbani (All India Radio, India)
79. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, UK)
80. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
81. Kolkata University Shahayak Samiti (India)
82. Oxfam
83. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)