Every year, 56,000,000 people die. 524,000 are war victims, 7,615,360 are from starvation and 800,000 are the result of suicide. It is hard for people in Sweden to see the conflicts that is making the world fall apart. This due to the fact that the last time there was anything even near a conflict here, was for exactly 200 years ago, in 1814 and that was the napoleon war followed by the crusade against Norway. This is the story of Eyob and his journey from barely living to having a dignified life. It is my purpose for this text to be helpful on the way of understanding the darkness and horror that racism causes the world. It is a warm late summer day and I’m at Kullhammar, a refugees quarter in Järvsö. I’m here to speak with Eyob, a young man who recently was forced to flee his country in order to keep his life. Despite all this he seems genuinely happy and is filled with compassion. We meet up in his room that he shares with four other men from Eritrea and Sudan. Almost everyone here has asked me if I'm hungry or want something to drink. We sit down in a pair of chairs and Eyob starts to tell his story. He was born 1978 at Khanqah Station, the ex-military camp in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea. When Eyob was a kid his father was a soldier for the Ethiopian military and due to this his first language became Amharic instead of the Eritrean tigrinya. In 1990 when Eyob was 12 years old the borders between Eritrea and Ethiopia became more apparent and he was separated from his Ethiopian friends. Several times during the interview, Eyob interrupts his story to tell me how happy he is to be able to sit here and tell me about his stories and experiences. He learned English by volunteers from Norway, Canada and USA whom was surveilling the formally conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia. After many years of war Eritrea was finally declared with independence from Ethiopia and 1993 and 1994, the new military regime introduced “national