Pope Francis in Burma - Silence is costly

Pope Francis held 15 minutes of talks yesterday with Burma’s military chief at the start of a visit to a majority-Buddhist country. 

The pontiff will also visit Bangladesh, where more than 620,000 Rohingya have fled to escape what Amnesty International has dubbed “crimes against humanity”.

A Vatican spokesman reported that “they discussed the great responsibility of authorities of the country in this time of transition” which seems like diplomat-speak for the probability that the Pope raised the genocide of the Rohingya with the general.