Under auspices of the Yemeni community in Malaysia, the council of the revolutionary youth and the Yemeni students' union in Malaysia held a celebration on the 8th anniversary of the 11th February revolution in the national university of Malaysia.

At the event, representative of the council Dr. Faisal Ali conveyed to the attendees the greetings of the council on the occasion, affirming in a speech that the peaceful, popular revolution is invincible.

"Neither the coup nor its supporters can defeat the revolution, not now, not later," he said.
"The revolution did not come from the blue. It reflected the determination of the people who expressed themselves during the period before the fall of the state into failure," he said.

Those who supported the counterrevolution will pay the price, Ali said, adding that the counterrevolution has failed because it was a reaction and has not learned from the past. "The counterrevolution gives the people reasons of revolt again," he said, calling on fellows not to turn back and surrender to illusions.

"The coup by the ousted president Ali Saleh Afash, Al-Himyari, and Abdulmalik Al-Houthi, Al-Hashimi, against the republic and state has taken Yemen into this huge internal and external exposure".

"Yemen belongs to the Yemenis. Its land, sees, sky, islands, ports, coasts and strait will not belong to anyone but the Yemenis".

"Anyone who covets an inch of Yemen will meet his destiny after many others who went to hell," he said, pointing out the council condemns all abductions and arrests of Yemenis by terrorist militias in Sanaa, Aden and Hadramout, forced disappearances and torture. He called for an immediate release of all detainees.

In his speech to the event, Mohammed Al-Rashidi, head of the Yemeni students' union in Malaysia, said universities are the base of revolution and have attacked ignorance. Universities have overthrown the rule of tribe and family and will overthrow the rule of dynasty and myth, he said, adding that Sanaa university and all other Yemeni universities took to streets on 11th February 2011 and forever. "There Yemeni youth chanted we want a state as the time marked the end of an era and the start of another".

The union is an extension of the Yemeni students' revolutionary movement which has been the voice of our nation since 1920s.
"Here we continue the 17th February revolution 1948, the 26th revolution 1962, the 14th October revolution 1963 and the 11th February revolution 2011 with the revolution of knowledge and scientific productivity," he said.

Achievements of Yemeni students at Malaysian universities are a revolutionary work, he said, call on all to support the vision of the youth, deepen the principle of intellectual and educational awareness and scientific research, and care about national identity which will guarantee fighting all calls for division and fragmentation.
In addition, he urged to pay attention to issues of students inside and outside Yemen.

Assistant secretary general of the Yemeni community in Malaysia Tawfiq Al-Qirshi said in his speech that marking the 8th anniversary of the 11th February revolution reflected determination to build a new Yemen based on the foundations of citizenship, democracy and the rule of law.

"The February revolution was an urgent need to save Yemen from the fall into the abyss," Al-Qirshi said, stressing that Yemenis should continue their battle towards freedom, justice, democracy and equality, face a counterrevolution and a bloody coup led by the Iran-backed Houthi militias.

Hadrami folk dances and poetic operetta were performed, poems delivered and the resurrection of Yemen movie displayed in the event.