This is not a case, such as Puventhirarasa v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2004 FC 947, cited by the applicants, where the officer failed to consider the current risk to the applicants if they should return to their country of origin, regardless of their credibility. In this instance, the officer considered that they had reavailed themselves of the protection of their country in 2004 and had not suffered harm. The fact that they were unable to recover property they had abandoned twelve years earlier when they fled is not, in itself, evidence of continuing persecution.
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