Major Conflicts that Started on Protests

Several conflicts in the 2000s like Libya, Ukraine, and Syria have started on major protests.
I will focus on these conflicts in this post individually.

1. Libya; The Libyan Civil War was one of the conflicts sparked by the Arab Spring of 2011. Several protests influenced by the Arab Spring occurred in Libya against the Gaddafi regime. The Gaddafi regime started a major and violent crackdown on the protests, thus sparking the Libyan Civil War. The protesters organized themselves into rebel militias, and warred against the Gaddafi regime. Gaddafi was doomed when several of his military deserted to the various rebel factions, doubled with NATO's bombings, the Gaddafi regime soon fell. Gaddafi himself was violently assassinated by the rebels. However, the various rebel militias were highly factional, leading to inter-factional fighting among the various rebel groups continued even after the fall of Gaddafi. In 2014, the infighting soon escalated into another civil war in Libya.
2. Ukraine; A movement in Ukraine called Euromaiden demanded that Ukraine joined the European Union and the impeachment of Yankukovych government. Euromaiden sparked several violent riots in Ukraine. Soon this lead to Russia's takeover of Crimea, and another more dangerous movement in Ukraine arose to counter the Euromaiden. The movement was labeled "the Pro Russian protests" by the Media. The "Pro-Russian protesters" were heavily armed with military fatigues and assault rifles. The "protesters" soon evolved into actual insurgent groups that created their own breakaway states called the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic. The Pro-Russian movement turned into a civil war within East Ukraine.
3. Syria; The Syrian Civil War was another one of the Arab Spring conflicts. Bahar al-Assad's regime suffered several protest movements against him.  Assad responded with an iron fist, and like in Libya, the protesters soon took to arms and armed non-state groups evolved. However, infighting, lack of organization and coordination among the opposition movements, and involvement of diehard Jihadists factions like al-Nursa and the Islamic State soon blurred the opposition movement's agenda and the "Syrian Revolution" thing was discarded. In 2013, the Islamic State invaded Syria from Iraq and started attacking Syrian Government forces and the native insurgent groups alike. Islamic State's involvement caused the already bad infighting among the rebel groups to escalate more.