How adoptees from Bangladesh search for their past | DW Documentary
From the late 1960s onwards, thousands of Bangladeshi children were adopted abroad in the hope of a better future. But behind this humanitarian façade lay a web of trafficking, deception, and lost identities. DW uncovers the heartbreaking truth of stolen pasts and follows two adoptees living in the Netherlands as they search for their birth families.
00:00 Intro
01:30 Meet Sander, adoptee from Bangladesh
05:38 How the Shapla Community is helping adoptees
06:58 Suma’s search for her birth family
10:42 Sander meets his biological family
17:36 Context and history: Overseas adoptions
25:50 Situation of children in Bangladesh today
27:05 Life as an adoptee vs. in the birth family
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