Survivor Joeweela (39) in deep mourning: “She really isn’t there anymore, isn’t it?”

“In fact, never anyone in the Netherlands has really asked how life was in Eritrea.” An Eritrean young man makes the comment casually, after we have been chatting for an hour. About his childhood on the other side of the world are forced flight. He has been living here for more than 10 years and tells me, in fluent Dutch, about his fascinating home country.