Pope Francis gave a highly anticipated speech in Burma Tuesday, in which he chose not to speak publicly about the Burmese military’s ethnic cleansing campaign against Muslim Rohingya in the majority Buddhist nation. More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled Burma into neighboring Bangladesh amid the military’s campaign of murder, rape and arson.

On Tuesday, Pope Francis did not even say the name “Rohingya,” after church leaders warned him that using the highly polarized word could aggravate the Burmese military. The pope has also met in private with the head of Burma’s armed forces, as well as Burma’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. He’s slated to meet with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh later in the week.