(Reuters) - The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday more than a million people in Myanmar will be cut off from its lifesaving food assistance, starting from April, because of critical shortfalls in funding.

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.

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.