Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, whose chosen title is “The Cold War Killing of Ceylon’s Bandaranaike and Chile’s Allende: ‘Operation Colombo’, Culture War and the Disinformation Game”
Decolonizing Global South History and WOKE Film
Rithika Kodithuwakku as a Tamil Sakkili Woman in Asoka Handagama’s art house rape fantasy which effectively character assassinated Chile’s Poet Laureate, Pablo Neruda in a different sort of ‘Operation Colombo’ to that which followed the CIA backed coup against Democratic Socialist President Dr. Salvador Allende in September 1973
September marks anniversaries in the chilling deaths of two democratically elected Socialist heads of state during the United States’ led Cold War anti-communist crusade that unfolded across the world for almost half a century between: The first assassination of concern here, happened in Colombo, the capital of the geostrategic Indian Ocean island of Ceylon on September 25, 1959. The second death happened half way across the world in South America– fourteen years after the assassination of Ceylon’s first Socialist Prime Minister S.W.R.D Bandaranaike.
On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende, South America’s first Socialist head of state died during a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), backed coup as military helicopters strafed the Presidential Palace in Santiago de Chile.
