In one month, thousands were burned, beaten, or shot to death, according to Doctors Without Borders.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Rakhine State.
The pontiff defended his silence while in Myanmar on the humanitarian crisis, saying he spoke privately to the nation's leaders about the issue.
He alluded to "justice and respect for human rights" but did not specifically mention the persecuted ethnic minority.
The pope met with a military commander accused of overseeing a brutal campaign against the country's Rohingya Muslims.