Can we forgive torturers?

I started this post yesterday, but couldn't post it b/c we closed early:

Hector Mondragon was tortured over 20 years ago in Columbia. In this article, he points out that those who torture are still human:

Torturers are not "a few bad apples" who just need to be thrown away or have the rotten piece cut off. They are human beings who have been converted into instruments of the system of economic exploitation and oppression. None of them came to be this way on their own. Condemning a few of them to jail might be "fair," but it is not going to stop the nightmare.

He asserts:

I feel in heartfelt communion with the terrible pain and humiliation of these tortured prisoners, but I also find this communion with the disgrace of the torturers and their human misery. I think that we all deserve redemption from this system of death and reconciliation to our dignity as human beings.

Amen, Hector!