"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

But as sibling says, it like any obituary needs some context; what do you expect for someone who spent practically their entire career in the military? I think pick almost any other and it will be 'worse', if you didn't like that.

I don't know how any one could expect people to lay down and take what was going on - challenging election results with the military, making efforts to destroy the local language, keeping people in poverty, etc.

From an Irish perspective - I get it.

That said, it does rub me the wrong way a little that there's lines such as "If ever a war was justified, it was the Bangladesh war" in an obituary, where you have to be "that guy" if you want to challenge them. But when I think of how I'd react to such a line in an Irish obituary, it doesn't really bother me.

Maybe that's bias. But I can believe that to this guy, he's just saying it how it is.

There's also no intent that I can discern to influence current events. 'Propaganda' doesn't usually describe events from over 50 years ago, if anything that would be 'historical revisionism' - which I don't think this is.