“Huddled masses” doesn?t quite describe the plight anymore. But with blowtorch intensity, the jarring new release “Blood Diamond” does; and a local group ? which says that the Baltimore area has an a large number of this scourge?s victims ? quietly comforts the survivors of worldwide torture and trauma.

“We pick up where Amnesty International leaves off,” said Porthira Chhim, development director of Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma in Baltimore, adding that the inconspicuous facility is one of only two dozen in the country equipped to help people recover from the terror they?ve endured.