Myanmar's Previous Ambassador Departed After Less Than Six Months

Published April 13, 2005

Sadewo Joedo had only been at the Indonesian Embassy in Ottawa for one month before his country was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004, an event he says was the toughest and hardest that his mission and his country has ever had to deal with in its modern history. Speaking with Embassy days after the most recent aftershocks, months after the initial event, he and his colleague, Counsellor Iswayudha, sent...