Ladies and Gentlemen, Today, we celebrating the sixth anniversary of the glorious February Revolution while we have been more determined to build a new Yemen based on principles of citizenship, democracy and the rule of law.

February Revolution was a landmark in the history of our glorious people, and put our people on the right path. The wheel of profound change will not stop until everything great is accomplished for our patient and persistent people, the main goal is achieved, and the whole dream comes true.

 

Dear all, 

Today, after six years of our peaceful popular revolution, some may ask what has – and has not -the revolution achieved? 

In fact, when we go back to remember what we have done, we realize how much great we were; what a wonderful achievement we made!

It’s a great achievement as we are faced with an ex-regime getting accustomed to crime, stealing and tarnishing the image of Yemen which had had a bad reputation everywhere in the world. 

What a wonderful achievement we made!

The time has come for us to take great pride in what we have done.We have overthrown an about-to-happen hereditary rule, which would have crushed the republican system in depth and eliminated the objectives and spirit of the glorious revolutions September and October.

The youth have plaid  an admittedly great role in stopping that historical farce, as they encountered with courage and awareness the process to change the features of the republican system for which our ancestors and fathers made great sacrifices to establish. 

What a wonderful achievement we made!

February Revolution was credited with confronting the aggression against the republic and the Yemeni state by the ousted president Ali Saleh. It has unmasked him and showed the people the truth about him: a gangster, not a statesman as claimed, as statesmen do not burn their homes for the sake of lust for power or revenge.

What a wonderful achievement we made!

Our peaceful revolution prevented the collapse of the republican system and broke the monopoly of wealth, power and influence forever. This fantastic accomplishment would have never been achieved in such competent and efficient manner if February Revolution had not taken place. 

When talking about the monopolist of power, wealth and influence, we should point fingers at people of certain areas, as residents of areas are mostly just victims like the ones of the other places across the entire country. 

Instead, fingers should be pointed at those who throughout history have monopolized everything, and have withheld the spoils of monopoly from the people of their areas and have used them as pawns and servants to them after they declared themselves endless leaders, masters by genes and dignitaries for life.

 

Dear beloved… O sons of the great Yemeni people…

Today, we are continuing our great fight for freedom, justice, democracy and equality, and are faced with a counter-revolution and a bloody coup led by the ousted Saleh allied with the Houthi militia backed with unlimited Iranian support. As we do so, some skeptics along with those lacking in revolutionary certainty ask: is such outcome a success of or a failure for the revolution and those behind it?

Only servants, informants or tools of the ousted regime look at matters this way because they want to tell that uprising against their master was unnecessary and the dark regime was the best ever our great people deserved.

Some are unaware of realities of change, and that any revolution’s goals are fulfilled through stages; the revolution is affected neither by utterance nor by incompetents.

We called for change but not for war, for peace but not for armed confrontation, for partnership and consensus but not for exclusion, explosion and displacement. Whoever opted for war and armed confrontation has brought all this destruction!

Whoever broke up consensus and partnership, invaded cities and forcibly took over public institutions- thinking that they could restore and prolong monopoly of wealth and power by their family, tribe and sect- is responsible for all this destruction.

The youth of February and their great peaceful revolution have not monopolized power, stolen the country's wealth and stormed cities and institutions of the state, therefore it is a shame when some attempt to throw the responsibility on everyone just like informants of the deposed do.

 

Dear comrades, 

Dear comrades of revolutionary struggle, 

The revolution has achieved many things, and many others will be achieved in the coming years:

Our glorious revolution will keep breaking the unjust equation represented by seizure of power and wealth until a just equitable distribution of wealth and power prevails the country's provinces, governorates, and different areas, provided that it is based on a new equation seized by nobody and depends on a revolutionary inevitability that has no choice but to win. 

Revolution will be making steady progress no matter what the obstacles and difficulties, and it will keep going on as an inevitable choice to build the state of law where justice, respect for human rights and freedoms and equal opportunities are guaranteed.

They see it as distant, but we see it as near… 

What about the war imposed by the fascist racialism allied with the ousted Ali Saleh and the remnants of his regime, with unlimited support from Iran haunted by obsessive desire to seize control of the region?

What is the youth’s role in this regard?

I say with confidence that we will work for peace, not for revenge, and we will move on- with a moral and patriotic commitment- to put an end satisfactory to all parties to the war. Here, let me emphasize that any war without a noble goal becomes only a way to kill and take revenge. 

Yes, we will fight for a sustainable peace where:

 1) the Yemeni state represented by the transitional authority has the exclusive right to own weapons and extend their influence over all the national territory;

2) individuals and groups have the right to organize themselves in political parties and entities away from violence and force after dissolution of militias and armed groups.

3) a general amnesty is granted to individuals with the condition of non-recurrence; this amnesty, however, should exclude the ousted president, militia leaders and all those involved in massacres as well as ensure reparation and compensation for victims.

Then, we have to hold a referendum on the draft constitution, which has previously been agreed upon, and organize different elections - local, parliamentary, presidential and etc.-  in accordance with the new constitution.

This should be accompanied by taking economic measures to improve people's livelihood, reconstructing the country, building a unified national army loyal to the nation- not to individuals, family, tribe, sect and the party.

This is our way to achieve our noble goal, a federal republic of Yemen with multiple regions, and this is the promise and pledge made by the revolution. It is a renewable revolution until victory...

To the fascist Houthi militia and its close ally Saleh who wants to come back to rule us by force and oppression:

The February Revolution has an inevitability saying: whoever tries to stop its turning wheel by war and oppression will face strong fighters and resistance. So goes the law of change and so goes the history’s cunning; no surrender to injustice and no subordination to tyrants!

The inevitability of February Revolution also says:

Our revolutionaries do not forget the revolution;

Our martyrs do not die;

Our dream is not crushed. 

The inevitability of February Revolution and the great history of Humairis say: 

These people are invincible, and we are we are people of strength and of great military might

Dear comrades... dear comrades of the Arab Spring… and dear bearers of the big dream:

The Arab Spring revolutions have come not to wreak havoc as propaganda of authoritarian regimes says, but to stop tyranny and failure that had dominated our countries over long decades. So no matter what has happened, the Arab Spring will gradually win. 

The Arab Spring revolutions have succeeded in reshaping consciousness towards freedom, dignity and equality, which was absent or indistinct in the past. We began the process of emancipation from the tutelage of tyranny, we will get to build the hoped state that respects its citizens, we will inevitably get.

Facing the counter- revolutions is only one among a series of rounds of the popular revolution, which spontaneously and automatically broke out, as if it were one of the natural movements that seeks no one’s permission, does not accept retreat and does not fear challenges or sacrifices...

It's our great battle for freedom, dignity, justice, democracy and equality, or we could sum up all of that in one phrase: the Arab Spring.

And so it has no autumn.. rather it is an everlasting spring for youth’s lives that have sparked six years ago, with the first torch in Tunis.. this is the law of life.. struggle for self-esteem, rejecting injustice, and to adopt freedom, dignity, and human solidarity..

Glory to you revolutionaries who spoke up for dignity, freedom, and humanity Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria, to the martyrs, to the wounded and detainees; all of you are on the path of prophets, the wise and philosophers. History will mention you as exceptional heroes as you were on the right side of history.

Glory to February, September, October and November! Victory to people you belong to, and to nation you are a part of! Blessed are you!

Peace be upon you.