Bernard Lukwago A/K/A Melvin Haft v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

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• holding that “former child soldiers” could constitute a “particular social group” for purposes of claiming future persecution because the past persecution—kidnapping and forced military service— differed from the feared persecution—execution for desertion
• holding that “former child soldiers” could constitute a “particular social group” for purposes of claiming future persecution because the past persecution — kidnapping and forced military service — differed from the feared persecution — execution for desertion
• finding that a social group “must exist independently of the persecution suffered by the applicant.”
• stating that imputed political opinion is political opinion attributed to applicant by persecutor and that persecution may be on account of such imputed opinion
• explaining that persecutor \may have multiple motivations\ as long as one of those motivations is \one of the enumerated grounds\
• holding that 2 “children from Northern Uganda who are abducted and enslaved by the LRA and oppose their involuntary servitude to the LRA” could not constitute a “particular social group” for a past persecution claim because the complained-of persecution created the group

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).