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Craig Murray is a Scottish dissident, human rights
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currently Rector of the University of Dundee and an
Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Lancaster
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November 5, 2005

Can we stop this terrible practice?

Letters to the Independent

Sir: I really wish I hadn't read the article by Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan ("The reality of Britain's reliance on torture", 27 October). I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that such vile things can happen in our name, but I am: when it has been spelt out so clearly one cannot but face the scarcely believable truth.

The really appalling thing is that ordinary people are powerless to stop this hideous trade. We can protest until we are blue in the face, to no avail. I wept when I read that article: is there really nothing we can do to put and end to this evil?

EVANGELINE EVANS,

JORDANS, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Sir: Former Ambassador Craig Murray's article was a salutory warning about what happens when human rights principles are overlooked by the exigencies of political pragmatism in the so-called "War on terror".

DR DAVID LOWRY

STONELEIGH, SURREY

Posted by andrew on November 5, 2005 6:28 PM in the category Rendition

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