Two years ago, Thaslima Begum and Rosie Swash began investigating what happened to babies given up for adoption in Bangladesh in the 1970s. A new law allowed families around the world to adopt Bangladeshi children for the first time. But as Thaslima and Rosie dug deeper, they found a system ripe for exploitation.
In this episode, Thaslima travels to Bangladesh to try to find out more about the mothers who – 40 years later – are still grieving for the children they say were taken from them. Meanwhile, in the UK, Rosie tracks down a retired doctor who tried to blow the whistle on the scandal in the 1970s.
Read more of Rosie and Thaslima’s reporting on this story here.
Photograph: Judith Jockel/The Guardian
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