Late U.S. senator Edward Kennedy and Baba-i-Balochistan, the late Mir Ghous Bakhsh Bizenjo, have been recognized by the government of Bangladesh for supporting the liberation struggle of Bangladesh, according to Bangladesh's first online newspaper bdnews24.com.
The decision to award Kennedy and Bizenjo with the highest award was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Bangladesh foreign minister Dipu Moni.
They are among 400 foreign nationals who supported the just struggle of the people of Bangladesh against the Pakistan military atrocities in 1971.
Senator Hasil Bizenjo, who is under fire of Baloch patriots for not helping the independence struggle in Balochistan, is likely to receive the award on behalf of his father.
Bizenjo's party called National Party was widely criticized in the media early this year after it inducted Imam Bheel, who was declared a drug kingpin by President Barack Obama, as its central leader.
A total of 40 Pakistanis and 226 Indians are among those who have won the award. Cuban leader Fidel Castro is one of the winners, while Indian premier Indira Gandhi, Yugoslav Joseph B. Tito and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev been given the award posthumously.
Other than Bizenjo, Sain GM Syed, Air Marshal Asghar Khan, Sindhi poet Shaikh Ayaz, and human rights activist Ahmed salim, Tahira mazhar Ali Khan and lawyer Zaffar Malik have also been given the award.
Asghar Khan's son Omar Asghar Khan and Dr. Tariq Rahman who were conscientious objectors as military servicemen have also been selcted for the highest Bangladesh award.
A total of 83 US nationals have been selected by the committee. Senator Edward M Kennedy and Edmond Mulky, diplomat Archer Kent Blood, who was consul general of the US embassy in Dhaka in 1971, singer Joan Baez, poet Allen Ginsenberg and Layer Levin, the maker of the film "Joy Bangla", are among the selected personalities
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From India, the recipients include former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu, former foreign minister Sarder Saran Singh, former foreign minister Krishna Menon, former Congress leader Sachindra Lal Singha, former defence minister Jagojibon Roy, diplomat D P Dhar, P N Dhar, I J Gujral, Pranab Mukherjee, Field Marshal Manek Shaw, Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora, Pandit Ravi Shankar, film maker Satyajit Roy, singer Manna Dey, artists Makbul Fida Hussain and Bishnu Dey, and singer Mohmmad Rafi.
According to bdnews24.com, the president or the prime minister will give the recipients or next of kin a 50 gram gold (18 carat) crest and honorary citizenship of Bangladesh.
Video footage on Bangladesh liberation war, including those of General Yahya Khan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Indira Gandhi, and Sheikh Mujib:
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Comments
RASUL BUX PALLIJO WAS ONLY 1 IN BANGAL'S FAVOR DURING 1971, & HE WROTE A BOOK ( "jaki bangal san thyo" in sindhi ) ABOUT THIS CRIMINAL ACT OF PAKISTAN THAN HE WAS MANY YEAR'S @ "KOT LAKH PAT JAIL LAHORE" by GOVT of PAKISTAN
There were a lot of other pakistanies who protested against the exploitation against the bengalies....
Now it is the opinion of all pakistanies that they were wrong...it was the right of mujeeb ur rehman and awami leauge to make goverment after 1970 general election...when their rights were not given the independence movement started.....
But don't forget that bengalies also killed a lot of poor baharies and pakistanies who are innocent...
Also remember that these days millions of bengalies live in pakistan peacefully....
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