the capture of an important subversive leader and he was threatened with harm when his identity and his undercover activities became known to the terrorist like the like the owners petitioner in this case was motivated to court disagreed with the ice contention that the terrorist motivation to harm the petitioner had nothing to do with his political beliefs but simply because he cooperated with the with the military i think they'll be s in terms of what he qualifies for if you political opinion and what's the evidence that the shining path imputed some political opinion to your client five years after he after he testified people mean that could've easily simply been they were after him because he was a police officer not because they imputed some political opinion to him and cruz navarro seems to say if they're only after you because you're a police officer that's not good enough well he  sense party is it and how does it operate well i did the sendero luminoso the the narcotics traffickers much evidence and in the record about the tie in between narcotics traffickers and the terrorists and who sided with the philippine military in a conflict that was political edit score certainly would be perceived as a political act by a group of group inform the pun the record contains no other reason plausible or otherwise why the new people's army trafficking operation sure they engaged in some criminal activity but the essence of the new people's army was political the shining path is a massive drug trafficking operation and it seems to me that this police officer in this case was engaged in that of the thing rather than the political battle with a minute looks like the retaliation was designed to pay him back for his identification of one of their people i don't know that they can you clean division between the shining path as it was a just like  with the park in colombia which is a larger organization and more currently in the news it's hard to did to separate the drug trafficking operation from the terrorist organization they're recently on trial again and to sentencing and they do all political police you know this this may be a close question but the l j says you know this the threats of the respondent to the family rose directly out of the prosecution of this criminal isom that's of sorrow for illegal drug trafficking not necessarily because he had anything to do with a terrorist at that particular time the respondent was threatened because he was a material witness against this individual in a criminal prosecution that's and creating chaos disrupting the entire social order the the shining path like the new people's army is basically out to destroy the social we'll hear from the governor nothing ever happened to this guy in peru he had an incident when you try to arrest someone and but that was purely in the course of the arrest for a criminal act he didn't even he was in the hospital he didn't she didn't know who they were he assumed it was this guy we don't know who it was it could have been someone else we don't know why they were threatening him given what we know about the shining path and just an american terrorism in general later and threatened her again but it was interesting the first time they said find him wherever he is well they were living together at the time in the same home in the same city they found her but they didn't find him and then a month later they procured i don't bust and say w that i was an informant here he's a police officer so that changes the equation but the fact is that was his job and he had another job as a police officer he stayed there for four years after th journal and nothing ever happened to him nobody threatened him until a month or two before he left i'm not quite sure why he would leave his family who was also threatened and you can say that they couldn't have relocated  actions of some of his colleagues and he mentioned a few things but he didn't report it officially and nothing ever happened to him during all the years even though he started complaining about it in one nine hundred eighty three he didn't formally complain nothing happened to me when he exchanged views with friends w like minded but then he said he resigned from the police force and didn't wait until his resignation was processed because it takes years to process the resignation and then he called his friend who's a police officer for twenty seven back they might have as well have been saying we accept your resignation where shall we send your pet pension check or you haven't shown up for work and she hears where are you we're worried about you but he doesn't say what the contents of the letters were so it's just any interest in him in two thousand and again i really have a problem with someone whose wife and children are threatened if they can't find him and he skips this country and leaves them to fend with the terrorist threat couldn't he just reply he gives absolutely no reason for that or determine that he wasn't a claim no no absolutely not but we don't know why he couldn't apply for regular passport why did you have to buy passports at six thousand dollars a pop to the united states he is the one who fears persecution it's my understanding from his records and i saw nothing to the contrary that the individuals were only searching for him they said it doesn't matter where he hides we're going to find him his his presence there would actually present perhaps more of a danger to his family than if he were to leave because the persons were seeking him out not members  family who are applying his derivatives that his wife did not submit an independent claim claiming persecution her fear of persecution is that if i'm with him you know if he stands a chance of being killed and being argued will be submitted for decision