Dhaka, Nov. 16 -- Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Water Resources Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has said that citizens must abandon the belief that democracy will simply revert to its previous, flawed state.

"People often think, what will really change-things will go back to how they were before. But if we think like that, nothing will ever change," she warned. "Eight hundred and fifty children sacrificed their lives, and another four hundred and fifty children lost their eyesight. These were our children-yours and mine. So the country cannot return to what it was before, and there is no scope for that."

She made the remarks on Saturday while speaking about the political landscape in post-uprising Bangladesh. Rizwana Hasan was ad...