Food deprivation leads to malnutrition and ultimately starvation. There was some malnutrition but no reported starvation. Many Persian troops died from starvation and dehydration. This group was already suffering from starvation and disease. The characters suffer from starvation and thirst. Cambodians died due to starvation and cholera. Many died due to asphyxia, starvation or dysentery. All inmates were subject to starvation and epidemics. It resulted in deaths of millions of ethnic Ukrainians of starvation in peacetime. It was a total fiasco with many dying from disease and starvation. Given the scope of mass starvation, cannibalism was relatively rare. The blockade imposed during the ensuing stalemate led to mass starvation. The decline was caused by disease, starvation and massacres. One instance in South Korea resulted in the death of a child from starvation. Millions more also died of widespread starvation.