The effects of such recent bloody history are ever-present in a country that's suddenly very young, orphaned and hungry.
But before they are orphaned, families' incomes degenerate as the wage earner falls sick.
Universities and libraries will be allowed to upload "orphaned" works of art – artworks, photographs or books whose creator can no longer be identified – on to the internet without getting permission.Previously, they were only able to do so with the explicit permission of a copyright holder.
Everywhere you walk there are sad, orphaned relics – lone mailboxes, a decorative urn, a pizza oven, a sign on a knee-high gate in the middle of an empty patch of scrub that says, THIS PROPERTY NO SMOKING.
In Zambia, half of all children orphaned by Aids do not live with their siblings.
Reduced to a decorative mask, to distract from the great bulk looming behind, the facade is left orphaned, rejected by both building and street as a redundant rind of history.
To break the monotony, he adopts an orphaned fledgling sparrow.
Palmer has said his senators will vote for the carbon tax repeal, providing lower power prices are passed on to households, and also for the mining tax repeal, so long as the government retaines a payment for the orphaned children of soldiers.
"However, so far the British government has turned its back on the far smaller number the UN is trying to resettle outside of the region – those who the UN have said struggle to survive in refugee camps, including women who have been raped, children who have been orphaned, the disabled and very ill.
For Germans, liberalisation comes in more subtle ways, such as the new dispensation for universities and libraries, which will henceforth be allowed to upload "orphaned" works of art on to the internet without permission.
It was swept under the carpet, and it was this silence that the Zambian, and other sub-Saharan governments kept, that aggravated the Aids epidemic and in turn the number of children orphaned.
