The Houthi militia and Yemen’s overthrown president Ali Abdullah Saleh have caused all calamities and pains that have plagued, and still continue to plague, Yemen, said Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights defender, Tawakkol Karman. 

This came in a speech by Karman at "Women Against Impunity" conference organized today by the Association of Guatemalan Women in Madrid, one of the most important meetings for women leaders.

After three years of intervention, she added, the Saudi-led Arab coalition has put the president under house arrest in Riyadh, occupying large parts of the country along with main airports and ports. 

The Nobel laureate stressed that the struggle of the Yemeni people and the world’s free people is going to complete the overthrow of the coup, indicating that the coalition led by Saudi Arabia will willingly or unwillingly hand over every inch of areas under their control. 

Although Yemenis have millions of weapons, they have abandoned them and fought a peaceful revolution to overthrow dictatorship and corruption, the human rights activist pointed out. 

She added, “the revolution that broke out in Yemen in 2011 was successful and Yemenis got their rights and freedoms. However, Yemen is suffering today from a civil war that claimed the lives of thousands of civilians.”

“Yemeni civil war has caused a serious humanitarian crisis: famine, poverty and insecurity,” she continued, emphasizing the Arab Spring will not stop fighting for freedoms and rights. 

The Arab Spring did not die and will keep going on until states of freedom, justice and dignity are created. 

Finally, she stressed the need to end the war because its continuation provide tyranny and corruption with lifeline.