Jed Lea-Henry February 25, 2019 A False Start for Maldivian Democracy Jed Lea-Henry February 25, 2019 The Maldives should remind us that the old stench of an authoritarian dominated society cannot be washed permanently clean by a democratic tide. What we see is national consciousness beginning to sympathise with the autocrat they fought so hard to dethrone. A mass expression of Stockholm Syndrome.