The Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist, Tawakkol Karman, said that the hopes and dreams of the Arab Spring revolutionaries will never fade away or be in vain, emphasizing that revolutionaries do not forget their revolution just like peoples never give up their dreams.

This came in her keynote speech at an online panel entitled "Ten years of the Arab Spring: where are we now?" held today (Wednesday) by the SETA foundation.

“It is not fair to hold the revolutionaries and the Arab Spring accountable for what is happening in the Arab region,” Karman said, adding that she is confident that the struggle will continue and will not stop as long as a single regime of nepotism, corruption and failure continues to exist.

She indicated that the Arab Spring revolutions were a necessity imposed by a set of circumstances and factors, pointing out that the Arab world was not living in democracy and prosperity and its countries were suffering from widespread corruption, absence of freedoms, human rights violations and indignities.

“At the heart of this raging battle, the Arab Spring is defamed and unfairly blamed for chaos and internal wars, while the truth is that the masterminds of counter-revolutions have ignited wars everywhere, fearing that the Arab region would finally enjoy democracy and freedoms,” Mrs. Karman continued, pointing out that some ruling families with a tight hold over countries and peoples would never accept to allow the region witness a democratic prosperity.

She noted that the capitals of the counter-revolutions - owing to their huge wealth, international allies and affiliated anti-change groups- seek to thwart the Arab Spring, demonize the revolution and tarnish the image of those advocating and defending human rights and freedoms by using enemy propaganda, military coups, civil wars and chaos, and supporting the overthrown regimes.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as Karman said, have decided to fight against and eradicate the Arab Spring by supporting the coup in Egypt and Libya’s Haftar and his militia and financing Yemen’s counter-revolution to cause the state fall through the Houthi militia.