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Other awardees this year included Ramdien Sardjoe, Vice-President of the Republic of Surinam, Angidi Veeriah Chettiar, Vice-President of the Republic of Mauritius, Canadian MP Deepak Obhrai, Madagascar businessman and lobbyist for India-Madagascar, Ylias Akbaraly, the President of the Malaysian Senate, Tan Sri G Vadiveloo, community leader Ram Lakhina from the Netherlands, Gandhian and leading South African political figure Parmanathan "Prema" Naidoo, Member of the House of Lords, Baroness Shreela Flather, Indian business guru, Professor C K Prahalad of the University of Michigan and Professor Sumit Ganguly, an authority in political science at Indiana University.

Twenty-two years later, the Republic of Surinam was established as an independent nation.

Unfortunately, William Potogi died of a chest wound, say police in Paramaribo, in the South American republic of Surinam.