6 June 2007

AMSTERDAM – International adoption invites criminal practices and should be banned, says Roelie Post, a Dutch EU official who was responsible for the dossier on Romanian children from 1999 to 2005, the Volkskrant reports.

"Adoption is legalised child trafficking," Post says, who has carried out extensive research on the topic and gained insight into how children are "freed up for adoption."

Post says that the same methods are used all over the world to satisfy the enormous demand for children.

She says she is not surprised at the reports of illegal adoptions from India recently. "These kinds of scandals are par for the course," she said.

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Subject: Dutch news