WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Arout Melkonian ("Melkonian"), an ethnic Armenian and a Christian, lived in Abkhazia, an autonomous region within Georgia, from his birth in 1959 until September of 1992, when he fled across the Russian border to escape kidnaping by ethnic-Abkhaz Separatists. He subsequently left Russia and, in early 1994, entered the United States illegally and applied for asylum and withholding of deportation under sections 208(a) and...
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