Sri Lankan baby trade: Minister admits illegal adoption trade
Sri Lankan authorities have admitted in a Dutch documentary that thousands of babies born there were fraudulently sold for adoption abroad in the 1980s. Up to 11,000 children may have been sold to European families, with both parties being given fake documents. Some were reportedly born into "baby farms" that sold children to the West. Sri Lanka's health minister told the Dutch current affairs programme Zembla he would set up […]
