Reuters: India Resists U.S. Assistance to Sri Lanka
Crossposted at Dark Days Ahead, courtesy Reuters, via YahooNews:
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's tsunami devastation has drawn a huge international aid response, but a geopolitical game of influence between India and the United States is playing not too subtly in the background, analysts said on Monday.
"There is no innocence in the politics of humanitarian assistance," said Jayadeva Uyangoda, head of the department of political science at Colombo University.
Uyangoda said Washington's decision to send as many as 1,500 Marines and an amphibious assault ship to Sri Lanka was seen in New Delhi as not "merely humanitarian".
"It is a symbolic intrusion into India's sphere of influence," he said.
Nearly 30,000 Sri Lankans were killed by the Dec. 26 tsunami and nearly a million have been made homeless...
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