The Gold Rush had severe effects Influence on Native Californians and resulted in Causation a precipitous native population decline Agree_or_refuse_to_act from disease Catastrophe , genocide and starvation .

In June 1930 , after fifteen months of living in poverty and starvation , the miners capitulated Sign_agreement and returned Arriving to work on reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale contract wages .

It incurred Causation the destruction Destroying of virtually all of Korea 's major cities , thousands of massacres by both sides ( including the mass killing Killing of tens of thousands of suspected communists by the South Korean government ) , and the torture Bodily_harm and starvation Killing of prisoners of war Hostile_encounter by the North Korean command Control .

They were characterized Justifying by unprecedented ferocity , wholesale destruction Destroying , mass deportations , and immense loss Earnings_and_losses of life due to combat , starvation , exposure , disease , and massacres .

Yet , without any help Assistance from outside , the garrison was forced Motion to capitulate due to starvation .

The Carthaginians , now led by Himilco , a Magonid kinsman of Hannibal , managed to capture a Greek supply convoy of ships using the Carthaginian fleet , which forced the Greeks to face the threat of starvation in turn .

Many of them also died Death from thirst Catastrophe and starvation Catastrophe on the journey Self_motion to Gansu .

Exposure , disease Bodily_harm and starvation Death during the flight of Assyrians increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the death Death toll , and women were subjected to widespread sexual abuse Bodily_harm in some areas .

Fighting in the agricultural heartland in the south of the country has soared Causation the number of people facing Confronting_problem starvation to 6 million with famine breaking out Process_start in some areas .

As in most Pacific War campaigns Military_operation , disease and starvation claimed Statement more Japanese lives than enemy action .

For twenty-four years the Indonesian government subjected the people of East Timor to routine and systematic torture , sexual slavery , extrajudicial executions , massacres , and deliberate starvation .

the commission for reception , truth and reconciliation in east timor documented Recording a minimum estimate of 102,000 unk deaths Death in east timor throughout the entire period 1974 to 1999 , including 18,600 violent Violence killings Killing and unk deaths Death from disease and starvation ; indonesian forces and their auxiliaries combined Cause_to_amalgamate were held Defending responsible for 70 % of the killings .

Estimates of the number of human casualties Catastrophe range up to several hundred thousand dead Death , from either combat or starvation and disease .

This proved Coming_to_believe to be a gruelling test of endurance for the Japanese soldiers who had to struggle Confronting_problem over the rugged mountains ; in the end , the Japanese Army managed to withdraw Escaping its forces from Salamaua and Lae , though with extensive losses Earnings_and_losses from exposure and starvation during the retreat Escaping .

The blockade imposed Action during the ensuing stalemate led to Causation mass starvation .

During the two and half years of the war , there were about 100,000 overall military casualties Catastrophe , while between 500,000 and 2 million Biafran civilians died Death of starvation .

During the winter of 41–40 BC , Octavian 's army laid siege Besieging to the city , finally causing it to surrender due to starvation when the besieged realized reinforcements from Italy or the East were not coming .

Japanese ground forces on the island had been reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale from 36,000 to 11,000 through starvation , disease , and battle Hostile_encounter casualties Catastrophe .

By 2008 , the war and its aftermath had caused Causation 5.4 million deaths , principally through disease and starvation , making the Second Congo War the deadliest conflict worldwide since World War II .