Dhaka, Jan. 8 -- A democracy will not often fail with the loud cracking of Glass. In fact, failure will often occur in the silent hours of fear rebranded as order, of oppression justified as stability, of institutions of democracy subverted to safeguard power rather than safeguard democracy's citizenry. In times such as these, it is not tyranny that will jeopardise democracy but rather the deliberate delay of truth. In such instances, democracy will not fail all it will be denied is foundation.

The significance of this is very well understood by both authoritarian regimes and fascist regimes. It is not merely the fear of accountability that such regimes experience; their design inherently enables them to avoid it. The recent past is not ...