To the editors.
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I want to thank the Reader and writer John Conroy for bringing the work of the Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Victims of Torture to the attention of the public [August 5]. It is much too easy for Americans, relatively safe from state-sponsored terrorism, to avoid thinking about the horrors inflicted on other human beings by their governments. Conroy’s disturbing and unsettling piece served as an excellent reminder that 40 years after the Holocaust, the depths of man’s capability for inhumanity have yet to be reached.
I salute the courageous and dedicated volunteers at the Kovler Center, and thank them for their compassionate work on behalf of those who have so little and need so much. But the members of AI have a firm goal in mind: to put the Center, and torturers all over the world, permanently out of business.
