HOW A PEACEFUL PROTEST TURNED OUT INTO A SERIOUS CIVIL WAR OF THIS ERA

Lack of political freedom in the country, the state repression, emergence of unemployment, prevalence of corruption urged the Syrians to complain the president Bashar al-Assad administration in Syria who took over the power as a succession from his father Hafez in 2000.

In the city of Deraa demonstrations of pro-democracy inspired by Arab spring in march of 2011 forced the government to use of deadly force to crush the dissent gave a sudden boost to the a nationwide protests against the president pressuring him to resign.

A peaceful protest then resulted into a hazardous crackdown and things went out of control intensifying the situation. Oppositions who at first took arms to defend themselves later to expel the security forces. At the same time Mr. Assad vowed to crush the foreign-backed terrorism to restore the state control.

The violence with such intensity changed the lives of Syrians there after as this arouse into a civil war but it has become more than a battle of those in or against Mr.Assad as the with intervention of the regional and world power like Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States, turning Syria into a proxy battleground.

On 2nd of September, 2015 with a horrifying photographs woke the world filling every reader eyes with tears, those were the pictures of a dead toddler lying on a beach in Turkey. He along with his family were trying to escape to Europe after Canada rejected the refugee application and his family drowned in the Mediterranean sea.

The dissenters loosely organized themselves into various factions like Syrian National Council, Free Syrian Army, Islamic etcetera .More than 4 years after the war has begun it killed about 220,000 people. According to U.N more than 7.8 million people have been internally displaced.

Lebanon, Jardon and Turkey are hosting a majority of refugees. Meanwhile the pressures keeps on mounting on these countries as it has become a challenge for them to sustain the influx of those displaced people. Even today many Syrians are taking a risky and a long journey across the Mediterranean sea to Europe in a search for a good, better and a harmless secured life.