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Separated at Birth, Reunited by Tiktok

21-year-olds Amy and Ano are among thousands of people in Georgia who have recently discovered that they were stolen from their parents at birth and sold.

Until two years ago 21-year-olds Amy and Ano had no idea they were identical twins. Separated at birth, they found each other by chance - thanks to Tiktok. They are among thousands of people in Georgia who have recently discovered that they were stolen from their parents at birth and sold. It鈥檚 believed the black market in baby trafficking operated for decades from the 1950s when the country was part of the Soviet Union and getting worse in the 1990s during the turmoil that followed independence.
In this episode of Five Minutes On, Fay Nurse speaks to Amy and Ano and other families ripped apart by this scandal.

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