The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has recognized two exceptions to the general rules that compulsory military service in a foreign country cannot support an asylum claim based on a well-founded fear of persecution.
Joining other circuits that have considered the issue, the Second Circuit said a lower court failed to recognize that compulsory service in the Yugoslavian army was likely to force an ethnic Albanian asylum applicant to participate in military campaigns that had been condemned by the international community as “contrary to the basic rules of human conduct.”
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