The Qianlong Emperor then ordered the genocide of the Dzungars , moving the remaining Dzungar people to the mainland and ordering the generals to kill all the men in Barkol or Suzhou , and divided their wives and children to Qing forces , which were made out of Manchu Bannermen and Khalkha Mongols . Qing scholar Wei Yuan estimated the total population of Dzungars before the fall at 600,000 people , or 200,000 households . Oirat officer Saaral betrayed and battled against the Oirats . In a widely cited account of the war , Wei Yuan wrote that about 40 % of the Dzungar households were killed by smallpox , 20 % fled to Russia or Kazakh tribes , and 30 % were killed by the Qing army of Manchu Bannermen and Khalkha Mongols , leaving no yurts in an area of several thousands li except those of the surrendered . During this war Kazakhs attacked dispersed Oirats and Altays . Based on this account , Wen-Djang Chu wrote that 80 % of the 600,000 or more Dzungars ( especially Choros , Olot , Khoid , Baatud and Zakhchin ) were destroyed by disease and attack which Michael Clarke described as " the complete destruction of not only the Dzungar state but of the Zungars as a people . " Historian Peter Perdue attributed the decimation of the Dzungars to an explicit policy of extermination launched by Qianlong , but he also observed signs of a more lenient policy after mid-1757 . Mark Levene , a historian whose recent research interests focus on genocide , has stated that the extermination of the Dzungars was " arguably the eighteenth century genocide par excellence . " The Dzungar genocide was completed by a combination of a smallpox epidemic and the direct slaughter of Dzungars by Qing forces made out of Manchu Bannermen and ( Khalkha ) Mongols
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