Two human tragedies will forever scar Eritrean memories of the years after the 1998-2000 Border War with Ethiopia, as tens of thousands of young people fled repression and indentured servitude: the brutal kidnapping, torture and ransom of refugees in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and the drowning of more than 350 refugees in a shipwreck off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa. Nataniel survived both. He narrated his story at a café in a small Swedish town where he ended up.