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Posted on August 28, 2013 | Leave a comment
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Boghossian was born on July 22, 1937 in Addis Ababa, at the time the capital of the Italian
colony Italian East Africa, one and half years after the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.[1] His
mother, Weizero Tsedale Wolde Tekle, was Ethiopian.[1] His father, Kosrof Gorgorios
Boghossian, was a colonel in the Kebur Zabagna (Imperial Bodyguard) and of Armenian
descent.[1] Kosrof’s father, Gregorios Boghassian, an Armenian trader, had established a
friendship with Emperor Menelik II and worked as a traveling ambassador in Europe on
behalf of the Emperor.[4]
Boghossian’s father was active in the resistance against the Italian occupation and was
imprisoned for several years when Boghossian was a young child.[1] His mother had set up a
new life apart her children and although both he and his sister Aster (Esther) visited their
mother frequently, they were raised in the home of their father’s brother Kathig Boghassian.[4]
Kathig, who was serving as the Assistant Minister of Agriculture, together with other uncles
and aunts brought them up during their father’s imprisonment.[4]