Maria Titizian
Two years before his death in 1921, Hovhannes Tumanian wrote a letter to Avetik Isahakian.
“…I do not want and cannot write long from our country, although you ask this
of me. In short, I will say that we have destroyed our country from within and
from beyond. Mainly we. I am saying we, and herein lies the truth. Some are
unruly scoundrels, others are robbers and thieves, others are incompetent
derelicts and there wasn’t a multitude, at the very least a small group, who
would uncover the renewed breath or moral capability. Amidst the calamities and
the losses, not a single guilty person was revealed, no one was brought to
justice and no one answered. And it continues. Now it is the same people on the
same journey… And not a single person committed suicide to show that shame and
conscience exists among these people.”
