I'm gonna tell God everything, said a dying 3-year-old Syrian

New Delhi: This picture is haunting and it's been floating around the internet with the sentence: The last sentence a 3-year-old Syrian said before he died: “I'm gonna tell God everything”. It's impossible to verify but the picture tells a story about the pain and suffering that exists in Syria right now. The Australian describes it as “a statement that epitomises the insanity of the Middle East conflicts and frames the battlelines drawn for political and economic gains draped in ethnic and religious colors”. The wicked violence, the gruesome bloodletting, and the indiscriminate killings are not letting up. Once the flames of war have been ignited – what we are witnessing is immeasurable suffering and incalculable deaths. The unrest began on 15 March 2011, with popular protests that grew nationwide by April 2011. These protests were part of the wider North African and Middle Eastern protest movements known as the Arab Spring. Syrian protesters at first demanded democratic and economic reform within the framework of the existing government. In April 2011, the Syrian Army was deployed to quell the uprising and soldiers fired on demonstrators across the country. After months of military sieges, the protests evolved into an armed rebellion. The conflict is asymmetrical, with clashes taking place in many towns and cities across the country. A late 2012 UN report described the conflict as "overtly sectarian in nature" between Alawite shabiha militias and other Shia groups fighting largely against Sunni-dominated rebel groups, though both opposition and government forces denied that. According to the United Nations, the death toll surpassed 100,000 in June 2013, and reached 120,000 by September 2013. In addition, tens of thousands of protesters, students, liberal activists and human rights advocates have been imprisoned and there are reports of widespread torture and terror in state prisons. More than four million Syrians have been displaced, more than three million Syrians fled the country and became refugees, and millions more were left in poor living conditions with shortage of food and drinking water. The situation is especially bad in the Palestinian Yarmouk Camp, where currently 20,000 residents are facing death by starvation from a Syrian army enforced blockade. Chemical weapons have also been used in Syria on more than one occasion, triggering strong international reactions.