The United Nations food agency says that more than 1 million people in the war-torn nation of Myanmar will be cut off from food assistance due to critical funding shortfalls.

More than a million people in Myanmar will be cut off from lifesaving food assistance provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) from next month because of critical shortfalls in funding, the latest cut in humanitarian support from the UN agency.

Myanmar’s deepening crisis is caused by a combination of factors. But the cuts could not come at a worse time. Myanmar’s military has destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of its citizens, as it pursues its relentless campaign of bombardment, burning, looting, pillaging, rape, torture, killing and destruction.