invade the family's village in northern Sierra Leone, call Jalloh's parents and sister out of their house by name from a list, and kill them. Jalloh testified that the list was of supporters of the Kabbah government and that his parents and sister were on the list because his father had openly supported Kabbah in the recent elections. Papa Shaw did not say that Jalloh's name was on the list. At the time, Jalloh had been living in Freetown for five years and had not been politically active. He testified that he has no interest in politics.


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After the phone call, Jalloh traveled by hired car with a Muslim Imam to his parents' village to bury his parents and sister. Traveling back to Freetown two days later, his hiredcar was stopped by rebel soldiers, who asked Jalloh if he was a Fullah from Sierra Leone. Jalloh said he was a Fullah from neighboring Guinea. The rebels forcibly conscripted Jalloh and four other men in the car to fight against the government. Jalloh was taken to a rebel training camp, where he was photographed and fingerprinted. After a week, he escaped to a refugee camp in Guinea. When he learned that rebels were executing Sierra Leone Fullahs in Guinea, he obtained a fraudulent British passport and made his way to the United States.


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Peacekeeping forces from other West African nations intervened in the violent Sierra Leone civil war and restored Kabbah as president in mid-1998. The civil war raged on. At the time of Jalloh's asylum hearing in