Legal Opinion
Emir Lenjinac v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 17, 2015No. 14-1807PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
Emir Lenjinac was born in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1987 and is a Bosnian Muslim. During his childhood from 1992 to 1995, Bosnia-Herzegovina was entrenched in a civil war involving various political and ethnic factions within the territory of former Yugoslavia. The war was characterized by ethnic cleansing and Bosnian Muslims were particularly threatened by the violence. Lenjinac’s family fell victim to these atrocities during the Srebrenica massacre of 1995; their home was burned to the ground and Serbian forces captured several male family members who have not been seen…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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