Some scholars estimate that about 80 % of the Dzungar ( Western Mongol ) population ( 600,000 or more ) were destroyed by a combination of warfare and disease in the Dzungar genocide during the Qing conquest of Dzungar Khanate in 1755 – 1757 , in which Manchu Bannermen and Khalkha Mongols exterminated the Dzungar Oirat Mongols . 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 . " Anti-Zunghar Uyghur rebels from the Turfan and Hami oases had submitted to Qing rule as vassals and requested Qing help for overthrowing Zunghar rule . Uyghur leaders like Emin Khoja were granted titles within the Qing nobility , and these Uyghurs helped supply the Qing military forces during the anti-Zunghar campaign . The Qing employed Khoja Emin in its campaign against the Zunghars and used him as an intermediary with Muslims from the Tarim Basin to inform them that the Qing were only aiming to kill Oirats ( Zunghars ) and that they would leave the Muslims alone , and also to convince them to kill the Oirats ( Zunghars ) themselves and side with the Qing since the Qing noted the Muslims ' resentment of their former experience under Zunghar rule at the hands of Tsewang Araptan
Dzungar genocide
Dzungar genocide
Genocide of indigenous peoples