{"id":57460,"date":"2023-08-11T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/11\/ill-never-know-where-im-from-plight-of-the-adopted-children-of-bangladeshs-birangona-women"},"modified":"2023-08-11T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T05:00:29","slug":"ill-never-know-where-im-from-plight-of-the-adopted-children-of-bangladeshs-birangona-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57460","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ll never know where I\u2019m from\u2019: plight of the adopted children of Bangladesh\u2019s Birangona women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of children born to victims of rape during Bangladesh\u2019s war of independence in 1971 were adopted by foreign families. Now, many want to discover their roots<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/aug\/11\/the-children-who-say-they-were-wrongly-taken-for-adoption\">The Bangladeshi children who say they were wrongly taken for adoption<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jane Radika was searching for answers. Approaching 50, she had become reflective about life and yearned to know more about the circumstances of her adoption, from an orphanage in Bangladesh to a small Cornish town in England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was only five weeks old when I came to the UK, so I have no recollection of it. From what I have learned, my mum gave birth to me in the Mother Teresa orphanage in Dhaka. Unfortunately, I have conflicting information \u2013 her name may be on my Bangladeshi birth certificate or it may not. It has been lost, which is heartbreaking, but apparently the orphanage has a copy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/11\/ill-never-know-where-im-from-plight-of-the-adopted-children-of-bangladeshs-birangona-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of children born to victims of rape during Bangladesh\u2019s war of independence in 1971 were adopted by foreign families. Now, many want to discover their rootsThe Bangladeshi children who say they were wrongly taken for adoptionJane Radika was s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1339,327,59,60,242,61,2410,83,617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-bangladesh","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-south-and-central-asia","category-violence-against-women-and-girls","category-war-crimes","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57461,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57460\/revisions\/57461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}