SYDNEY, Australia — Global efforts to stop Myanmar's civil war were "clearly not working," a United Nations expert warned on Thursday as he urged leaders to starve that country's ruling junta of "money, weapons and legitimacy."

Describing a situation that has "gone from bad, to worse, to horrific," UN Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews said more than 3 million people had been displaced by fighting in the Southeast Asian nation in as many years.

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