Woyanne ambassador to Canada since 2005, Ato Getachew Hamusa, who had been sick with liver and pancreatic cancer, died after returned to Ethiopia and on death bed.
The ambassador left Canada on August 7 having told by Canadian doctors that he would live only two weeks. He was taken to Washington DC by air ambulance to fly back home on board Ethiopian Airlines on the same day.
Getachew Hamusa is from southern kilil and belongs to Gamo ethnic group in Gamo Gofa Zone (kifle hager)
since 1987 (1996Gc) to 2005. He had been Finance Bureau head for South Ethiopia Nations Nationalities and People’s regional government, Awassa until his appointment as ambassador to Canada.
The following is from Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ website:
The burial of the late Ambassador to Canada, Ambassador Getachew Hamusa took place at St. Gabriel Church, Hawasa, yesterday.
Ambassador Getachew was born in Gumguma town in Arsi in 1951. Educated at the Teacher Training Institute in Harar, he worked as a teacher in Gamu Goffa for ten years, before taking a degree in management and public administration at Addis Ababa University. He later took a masters in international relations at London University.
After graduating from Addis Ababa he became administrator of the Bahr Dar Teacher’s College, a post he held for several years. He subsequently held a number of posts in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region administration including head of administration and finance in the Education Bureau, and later becoming Head of the Regional Bureau of Finance and Economic Development. He contributed significantly to the implementation of reform of financial management in the regional administration.
Apart from his administrative positions, Ambassador Getachew also served as a member of the Regional State Council, and the Regional Council for Administration. He was a board member and chairman of various educational institutions and public development enterprises in the SNNPR. Ambassador Getachew was appointed Ethiopia’s ambassador to Canada in January 2006
He passed away on September 3, 2008 after a long illness. He was brought home some weeks ago when his health began to deteriorate.
16 thoughts on “Ambassador to Canada died”
who cares if a weyane-servant dies?
I felt sorry for the incident. And my condolence is to his family.
From the late resume I understand that woyane does not care about the Ambassader role for nation development.I believe the late ambassader is more suitable to other home land excutive/Adminstrative post than being possitioned to this key roll. Woyane has to start to learn to do things with standard and first nation basis than his political advantage.
The hope of Ethiopians is that the hodams and tyrannts die one by one before inflicting great damage on the people and the country.
Nobody care. I wish Meles follows him.
Nebse yemare
Who cares one hodam dies? I wish if Meles follows him.
LEMIN BEMULU DEBEIN AYELUM….
Who cares all the weyane servants dies, by the way it would’ve been so good if the tigrian tplf members start dying, which eventually will happen. If the major crime orchestrators of the TPLF members dies, the end of TPLF era will come to end so that the Ethiopian people will be the winner…..
In any case, it is a message for all weyane HODAM servants that the Ethiopian people doesn’t care about them since they deliberately denies the atrocities of weyane and even carries out the weyane crimes to fulfill their own financial interests.
I cant wait to see the death of TPLF idiot criminal members……
Death to weyane members and suppoerters………….
rot in hell blood sucker !!!!!
Why r u insulting a dead man? Maybe he was a good man, maybe he was capable of doing things at his position. Before you throw words reflecting hate, think twice.
I don’t care ! Please Ethiopian We must not forget to support armed struggle against Woyane in Ethiopia.Please let us be united and fight the East Africa Cancer.
Free Ethiopian from Tegrai Liberation front
When a person of this statue dies, even if he works for woyane, unless he is the man on the wheel if one can’t feel sorry one is mentally ill. In my years in the great land of the USA – have observed the attrition and gradual decay of my Ethiopian fellows moral status that will lead to a sure disaster in my beloved country. I lose sleep over the fact that I will be mourning on the worst disaster that man has witnessed. The worst could be coming if people like me don’t multiply. I will be on the forefront to fight moral decay, corruption and greed. The social movement has begun and hopefully moral decay will stop. Elias, you are the rapp music of Ethiopia. Your web site, morethan any Ethiopian websites, helps expose the degeneration of our culture.
when will you announce the death of Melese Zenawi and His wife.
Looking forward to attend the burial
the man is dead
I am sure he did not die in vain
But then again any one who insults a dead man must be sick or mentally dead himself or herself.
I heard he was a nice guy.
Pls stop accusing the deads !
Raza
I can not believe what I am reading here. No wonder we are the shame of humanity. Hungry, angry, hateful, can’t agree on any thing, good for nothing!
You are the advocates of Ethiopia in diaspora, who at all cost distance yourselves from any discussion about real problems in Ethiopia, problems such as famine and AIDS, but respond in such a shameful manner to the news of death of one of our own.
A soldier in war front respects the dead body of his enemy who was trying to kill him moments before. This is a simple respect for human dignity. We Ethiopians have lost this simple and basic human behavior.
This person you disrespectfully comment about on the news of his death, may or may not hold different opinions from that of yours. But does it matter?
Ambassador Getachew was a civil servant like most intellectuals in Ethiopia.
I happen to know him, not as an ambassador but as a good person and he is a honourable Ethiopian who diserves respect for what he has done and tried to do for his country.
I can assure you he has done way more for his country than you misreable losers out there.
Nefs yemar