Download or read book The Red Rugs of Tarsus: a Woman's Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909 (Large Print) written by Helen Gibbons and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But recent events in Armenia brought it all back again. My indignation, and a sense of duty and of pity, transcended all personal feelings. I lived again that night in Tarsus, when we-seven defenseless women, our one foreign man a brave young Swiss teacher of French, and 4,800 Armenians waited our turn at the hands of the Kurds. Massacres had begun again, a thousand times worse than before. Other American women were in the same untold peril that I had been. The whole Armenian people were marked for extermination. Now, as then, help had to come. But from where? What could I do? I could not go out there. I had my four babies. I had four hundred and fifty French soldiers' babies I had been mothering since the war began.