• Aung San Suu Kyi, in a nationally televised speech, pushed back against international criticism of Myanmar over the Rohingya crisis and promised to oversee efforts to repatriate those who’ve fled to Bangladesh.

She did not address their accounts of the military driving them out with arson, murder and rape.

Our correspondent was in Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial capital, to learn why the international diplomatic corps there has been so silent. Some diplomats said they were trying to preserve whatever influence they have left to avert an even worse catastrophe.