Smile Jamaica Concert of the concert series. Stir It Up: The CIA Targets Jamaica, Bob Marley and the Progressive Manley Government, an alternative historical novel by David Dusty Couples, weaves fact and fiction to dramatize the concert. The novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings" by Marlon James dramatizes the attempt on Marley's life, including other events leading up to the Smile Jamaica concert. Smile Jamaica Concert The Smile Jamaica Concert was a concert held on December 5, 1976, at the National Heroes Park, Kingston, Jamaica, performed by Bob Marley & The Wailers. Marley originally agreed to perform one song for the 80,000
Assassination of Lalith Athulathmudali Wellampitiye Sudumahattaya and K. Nandasiri Karunatilake "alias" Nandana were assassinated. Soththi Upali was shot dead on December 17, 1998 while returning home from the magistrate courts in Colombo, where he has been charged in connection with the assassination. It was reported that two vehicles have followed the bus in which Upali was traveling from Colombo to Piliyandala. As soon as he got down at Bokundara, he was shot and then dragged into one of the vehicles and taken to a place about 4 km from Bokundara, shot again and dropped. Prior to that, in late February 1998 at Borella, Nandana