During the late 1750s, the Chinese orchestrated a systematic genocide of the Dzungar people and managed to kill 80-90% of the population. According to modern historians, some of those who died during the Dzungar genocide may not have been killed by the Qing but rather by smallpox. However, most modern historians believe that majority of the Dzungar who died did so at the hands of the Qing soldiers. Anyways, this genocide is considered very successful. Michael Clarke said it "amounted to the complete destruction of not only the Dzungar state but of the Dzungars as a people." Additionally, Mark Levine thought of it as "arguably the eighteenth-century genocide par excellence." However, I simply fail to comprehend how in the mid-1700s a country could orchestrate a mass murder on such wide scale and have such "success". So if anyone is more knowledgeable on the period, China, or the genocide, in particular, can you explain this to me.
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