How twins separated at birth and sold for adoption were reunited by TikTok - BBC World Service

Amy and Ano are twins, but just after they were born they were taken from their mother and sold to separate families.

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They found out about each other by chance and as they delved into their past, they realised thousands of babies in Georgia were stolen from hospitals and sold for adoption, some as recently as 2005. Now they want answers.

0:00 Intro
01:30 How Georgia's Got Talent helped solve a mystery of stolen babies in Georgia
04:25 Twins Amy (Tako) Khvitia and Ano Sartania meet for the first time
05:34 The Facebook group that first exposed a baby-trafficking scandal
08:11 A mother confesses the dark secret of baby-selling at a Georgian hospital
06:58 The truth behind an adoption scandal
15:45 What is the Georgian government doing to tackle baby-trafficking?
16:35 The stolen twins confront their families
17:39 How Facebook helped the twins discover their biological family
21:25 A suitcase buried in the ground… and a dark secret
26:35 Should the twins meet their biological mother for the first time?
37:25 Reflections on a dark chapter in Georgia's history

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Credits:
Producer Directors: Fay Nurse and Woody Morris
Producer: Nino Shonia
Filmed and edited by: Woody Morris
Narration by: Mitra Djalili
Additional camera: Ed Hanson, Fay Nurse and Iago Gogilashvili
BBC 100 Women Executive Producer: Golnoosh Golshani

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