Carthage, Biafra, Stalingrad, Aleppo, Sarajevo, Tigray, Gaza and El Fasher in Sudan. Deliberate starvation as a weapon of war and as part of siege tactics dates back millennia, a brutal, attritional ploy that does not discriminate between civilian and enemy combatant. For some commanders and regimes, it is motivated by a vicious 'surrender or die' rationale-- but for others, it veers toward the genocidal, an attempt to wipe out an entire people or population. And in the case of the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces' (RSF) months-long siege on the city of El Fasher in Darfur, it is hard to view the choking siege and induced starvation as anything other than genocide.