According to the linked article, Federation officials arrived on the same day, so I assume you are referring to another reaction. Which reaction are you referring to?
Now, I am not an Intaki. I have a love for the people and their culture. One of my wives is Intaki. But I am not an Intaki, so if it was a mistake to have the monument be as it is, then I may never fully understand why.
But I do understand how this mistake could be made. It was a Federation planet, and the Intaki living there were Federation citizens. Having the Federation Eagle on the monument symbolizes that what happened was not just a disaster for the Intaki, but for the Federation as a whole. From that perspective, it could be seen as an insult to not have the Eagle there, as that could be interpreted that the disaster is of little importance to the Federation.
What if the Federation citizens on Reschard V had been Minmatar? Should the symbol on the monument have been a Minmatar one? In my view, that seems to be a bit unnecessarily divisive.
That the Federal Administration, or who/whatever was responsible, failed their own people is regrettable, but I I’m hoping that it is not this symbol that is projected by the monument:
I feel you may be unjustly conflating the Federal Administration with the Gallente Federation as a whole. Surely you don’t mean to say that the Federation, as a whole, including Intaki, had to be guilted into a reaction.
That being said, I would hope that the current administration would have consulted the Intaki, especially the victims and their families about the monument, but if they failed to do so, and the sentiment expressed by Bataav is indeed the one shared by the majority of those Intaki, then their wishes should be granted.