It was a good thing the Sakuntala didn’t know she was all but powerless to intervene in the conflict. If she ordered her small but well-armed and well-trained garrison to intercede on behalf of the Deyzara, it would look to her superiors as if she was favoring one resident sentient species over another. That would not sit well in certain departments on Earth and Hivehom. If she could show that she was doing so to prevent genocide, that would provide an after-the-fact justification for her actions. But the extremist Sakuntala were being too clever by half. In most uncharacteristic fashion, they seemed to be deliberately trying to avoid causing fatalities. They were herding the Deyzara, not (with a few exceptions) murdering them.
Was that sufficient grounds to validate an order to intervene? And if she did, there was another consideration. One that lingered on the fringes of every argument she could make in favor of helping the Deyzara. One that refused to go away, no matter how much she wanted it to.
The prospect that the much more numerous moderate Sakuntala, who like all their kind enjoyed a traditional passion for warfare, would join their radical brethren in the fighting if they felt that the self-proclaimed neutral Commonwealth Authority had chosen to side with the Deyzara. That and the even more disturbing possibility that, equipped with modern weapons, the Sakuntala might succeed in defeating the limited number of soldiers under her authority.
While she did not want to be chastised and demoted for taking the wrong action, even less did she want to preside over a massacre.