Dzungar Genocide Essay

Dzungar Genocide The Dzungar people were located in the upper west part of China, later named Xinjiang. In 1775 the war with Qing dynasty began. It was said to end in 1758 or 1759, no one is for sure when the genocide ended. During this time mainly men were killed and most of the women and children were separated among the Qing soldiers. The estimated number that died is from 600,000 to 800,000. Beside the war there was a smallpox’s break out. The Dzungar Genocide was a mass murder, and they had past history that lead to the genocide. There were two main groups in the genocide, but there also was small groups controlled by the Qing dynasty. The genocide was located in Western Mongolia, Kazakhstan, North Kyrgyzstan, South Siberia. Also, some of the people were near the Volga river, which is in Russia. The Qing dynasty wanted to destroy the Dzungar people after the Dzungar leader rebelled against the emperor(Manchu). So, when the …show more content…
Soon, the war came and there was little fights here and there throughout the area. Then Qing sent a few villages to wipe the Dzungar people out. As the war was going on, smallpox broke out and a good portion of people died from it. If they were a man there was a good chance that they would die. On the other hand if they were a women, they had a chance to be taken as a slave and work for the Qing soldiers. If they were a kid, they were taken as a slave if they did not put up a fight. With the kids most of them died because of the smallpox, way before the massacre occurred. Also, if they had not fled to the west, they were killed. So it was stay and try to fight and die, or flee to the west a try to survive. Then finally in 1658 or 1659 the final death had happened and the massacre had ended. One of the things about this genocide is that no one is for sure if the genocide ended in 1658 or in 1659