POPE Francis was "not complicit" with Argentina's brutal military dictatorship and pursued a "silent diplomacy", Nobel peace laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel says, following criticism the pontiff had failed to speak out.
"He was not complicit with the dictatorship; he did not collaborate," the Argentine Perez Esquivel said after meeting with Latin America's first pope.
The Pope, Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio at the time, was head of the powerful Jesuit order in Argentina during the 1976-1983 regime.
"He preferred a silent diplomacy, inquiring about the disappeared and the prisoners," said the prominent human rights activist who campaigned against the junta and won the Nobel Prize in 1980.
"The Pope had nothing to do with the dictatorship," he added, saying the justice system had found "no proof" of any collaboration.
"In the Argentinian Catholic hierarchy there were some bishops complicit with the dictatorship but Bergoglio was not one of them," he told reporters, referring to 76-year-old Francis's name before he became pope.
Perez Esquivel said he and the Pope had discussed human rights and that the pontiff had called for "truth, justice and compensation".
He said the meeting had been "very emotional".
The Vatican last week rejected claims the Pope failed to do enough to protect two priests tortured during Argentina's "Dirty War" in which 30,000 people were killed or disappeared.
Argentinian investigative journalist Horacio Verbitsky has criticised the Pope for his role, as has the famous Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo organisation, founded in 1977 to help locate children kidnapped during the military era.
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