Dalwar

*333 MEMORANDUM **

Shaikh Singh Dalwar petitions for review of a final order of removal by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”). The Immigration Judge (“IJ”) found that Shaikh did not meet his burden of establishing past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution and denied Shaikh’s requests for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Additionally, the IJ found that Shaikh had firmly resettled in India, and that this was a mandatory bar to asylum. Furthermore, the IJ held that even if Shaikh had established future persecution, the government successfully demonstrated that Shaikh could reasonably relocate within Bangladesh. The BIA affirmed, and because the agency’s determinations that Shaikh failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution are supported by substantial evidence, we deny the petition for review.

Shaikh bases his claim of past political persecution on events that allegedly took place between 1979 and 1981. The incidents Shaikh described, twenty to twenty-five Awami League Party (“ALP”) members throwing stones, brandishing guns, and shouting threats at his group…