Perhaps the Nazgul "haunted" Minas Ithil into desolation? That might explain why the Nazgul might not have been recognized as such at the time. The people didn't know what they were, there were just these horrible spirits that came to trouble them. The population might have left for no other reason than they were scared off.
Admittedly, this is a bit difficult to reconcile with the connotations of the word "siege" but it is also difficult to reconcile the Witch-King fleeing defeat able to raise an army from an area that was repeatedly described as desolate and empty for a long time previous and then besiege the city for two years without the power that just defeated him in the north doing anything to relieve a city of their own kingdom.
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