dissident on his return to Burma. Under the Refugee Protocol and the 1980 Refugee Act, the United States as a nation is committed and bound to protect “refugees” from persecution by providing protections to prevent the return of a refugee to her country of nationality where she is unwilling to return because of a well-founded fear of persecution on account of a protected ground such as a political opinion. Refugee Protocol arts. 1, 33; 1980 Refugee Act §§ 101(a), 201. Accordingly, the Ninth Circuit has held that an applicant may establish eligibility for asylum or entitlement to withholding solely on the basis of a likelihood of persecution on account of her political activities since arriving in the United States. See, e.g., Ghadessi v. INS, 797 F.2d 804, 807-08 (9th Cir.1986) (<HOLDING>); Sakhavat v. INS, 796 F.2d 1201, 1203-04 (9th
holding that an asylum applicant must establish a fear of reprisal on account of having demonstrated opposition to the government policy holding that a wellfounded fear requires petitioner to show more than a generalized or random possibility of persecution holding petitioner could establish wellfounded fear of persecution on account solely of involvement in activities in opposition to iranian government since arrival in us holding that such a report provided substantial evidence to support the conclusion that petitioner failed to demonstrate a wellfounded fear of future persecution holding that even a ten percent chance of persecution may establish a wellfounded fear