Legal Opinion
Sahajeewa Rathnakumara Loku Kankanamge Don, Shiyamalie Amaratunga Achthi, Minul Thankula Kankanamge v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 9, 2007No. 03-74431PublishedCited by 204 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RAWLINSON, Circuit Judge.
Petitioners Sahajeewa Rathnakumara Loku Kankanamge Don (Don), his wife, Shiyamalie Amaratunga Achthi, and their minor son, Minul Thankula Kankanamge,1 natives and citizens of Sri Lanka, legally entered the United States in 2000 as visitors and overstayed their allotted time. They conceded that they are removable, but requested asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT), based on alleged persecution by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a rebel terrorist group in Sri Lanka also referred to as the Tamil Tigers.…
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