The Hogan Lovells team filed the man's Application for Asylum with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services asserting prior persecution based on sexual orientation while living in Nigeria, as well as a well - founded
fear of future persecution based on sexual orientation if he returned to Nigeria.
For instance, uncertainty about the 1994 - 1998 Rwandan refugees»
future in exile is compounded by the recent resolution
of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to launch military attacks on refugees based in the DRC.35 No account has been taken concerning the fact that they are survivors
of the 1996 - 2000 massive forced repatriation and that they have been more vulnerable to extremely stressful and traumatic events that took place since the invasion
of Rwanda on October 01, 1990.36 Although they are indeed susceptible to posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, high level
of fear and anxiety (psychosomatic) and / or malnutrition caused by the
persecution and destruction
of the war, no one who wants to empathise with them.