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 finally meets a man who was involved in Bangladesh’s international adoptions in the 1970s.

She asks him about the allegations of forced adoptions.

And she joins Suma de Heij, a Dutch adoptee, as she searches for her birth family.Read more of Rosie and Thaslima’s reporting on this story here Photograph: Judith Jockel/The Guardian Support The GuardianThe Guardian is editorially independent. And we want to keep our journalism open and accessible to all. But we increasingly need our readers to fund our work. Support The Guardian .

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