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041084P.pdf   06/03/2005  Bouapha Phommasoukha  v.  John Ashcroft
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-1084
   Agency   
   Petition for Review. Immigration. Petitioner's imprisonment in a 
   Communist-run concentration camp in Laos constituted past persecution 
   based on his political opinion; therefore, he was entitled to the 
   presumption that he had a well-founded fear of future persecution if he 
   were returned to Laos, and the burden was on the government to prove a 
   fundamental change in conditions in Laos such that petitioner would no 
   longer have a well-founded fear of future persecution; reversed and 
   remanded for further proceedings. 
   [PUBLISHED][Gruender, Author, with M. Arnold and Bowman, Circuit Judges]