The city of Taiz witnessed a majestic mass celebration, on Tuesday, to commemorate the revolution of the eleventh of February in its ninth anniversary.

Where tens of thousands of Taiz revolutionaries commemorated the February Revolution, with a massive mass march that started from in front of the Governorate Building, through which the mass march roamed through a number of streets before reaching Freedom Square.

The revolutionaries stressed that the spirit of the February Revolution never left the body of the homeland or the hearts of the revolutionaries and that the ember of the revolution has not been extinguished yet, and chanted by a slogan, "We have not finished... We have not finished... We are just starting."

Head of the Information and Culture Department of the Yemeni Islah Party in Taiz, Mr. Ahmed Othman, spoke that the February Revolution "is not a passing event that passed and ended, but rather is a popular act that was carried out with collective consciousness, will and determination, which came as a result of accumulation of revolutions and accumulation of awareness over decades, and as a result of the people's openness to the world and knowledge of their rights and the sense extent of the crime of aggression on them and on the progress of the homeland, and it is a feeling of right and a feeling of injustice and a feeling of the violation of a homeland by tyrant individuals and families, and an awareness that the people should protect their rights themselves and pull out it, because freedom is not given, but is extracted.

Othman added to Al-Islah Net website, "Therefore, the revolution was devastating profoundly and it was a popular revolution that carried the right, dream and will. So, the dream will not stop and the revolution will not die, describing the revolution as "successive waves of struggle and bone breaking."

On the significance of the continuation of the revolutionary act in Taiz specifically, Othman said that "the revolution is an ongoing act and will that is fed by consciousness. And Taiz is the city of revolution since ancient times, and it reflects the spirit of the revolution among the people in general. And whenever people won the battle of consciousness, the revolution was more advanced and present, the revolution also exists in the rest of governorates, but in different forms and will not end."

Othman pointed out that "the army and resistance are a form of the revolution's forms," noting that "the army that fights without salaries and with rudimentary possibilities is the army that is closer to the spirit of the revolution than to the official position."

Othman emphasized that "the peculiarity of the popular revolution is continuity and renewal and that the revolution has a path and extent that must reach its end and complete victory. Half of the victory means reaching halfway, and there is no popular revolution that vaporizes in the middle or dies in the way, and if you like, ask history."

In a statement to Al-Islah Net website, the revolutionary Ihab al-Sami'i said, "It is not surprising that the revolutionary momentum continued in Taiz, specifically in the Freedom Square, as well as reviving the memories of the revolution and recalling with its events, because Taiz is the beating heart of Yemen, and it carries the banners of struggle, revolution and resistance."

"Taiz sparked the fuse of the February 11th revolution, erected tents in Freedom Square, chanted against injustice and corruption and demanded that the defunct regime be changed."

He continued, "Affash burned the Freedom Square in Taiz in an attempt to turn the revolution into ashes, but the revolution remained embers that burned his regime, his corruption, and his plans until it deposed him."

For her part, the revolutionary Sarah Qassem, the political official in the Department of Women of the Islah Party in Taiz said: "The February revolution is an extension of the glorious September revolution and the great October towards correcting the path. The February revolution is a movement of people, which amazed the world in its progress and peacefulness and showed the world the depth of awareness of the Yemeni youth who exploded the February revolution in order to stopping the social and political deterioration of a corrupt, authoritarian political regime, then for building a new Yemen that guarantees security, freedom, and social justice for it and its children and its grandchildren."

Sarah continued her talk to Al-Islah Net website, "The greatest accomplishment of the February revolution is that all political and social entities of Yemen met at the dialogue table as if they had not met before, and it produced the greatest document that seriously represents a socio-political contract which is the first of its kind in the contemporary history of Yemen, and this document is the Document of the Comprehensive National Dialogue Conference, then the draft constitution that emerged from the document of the National Dialogue."

She added, "After completing the National Dialogue, two steps were separating us from the new federal Yemen, which are the referendum on the constitution and then immediately going to the parliamentary and presidential elections, and thus the transitional consensual political phase ends and we start a new era. But unfortunately, the counter-revolution prevented this, with regional support, and the counter-revolution plotting with the head of the previous regime, through which they inserted Yemen into wars, by supporting the Houthi coup, with the aim of stopping the wheel of change in Yemen, fueling that sinister coup with massive media propaganda, misleading that the February Revolution is the cause."

To assert that the National Army and Resistance are an extension of the February Revolution, the revolutionary Abdul Jalil Hizabr commented by saying, "The peaceful February 11, 2011 revolution took place to push Yemen to forward, but it was intercepted by the armed catastrophe of September 21, 2014 in order to return Yemen to the" Imamate regime", but it was faced by the 2015 uprising that prevents that return and eliminates that idea."

Taiz was and still is the placenta that feeds all of Yemen with the struggle and the compass that guides all of Yemen's governorates, which is the reason why it is more exposed than other cities in Yemen to trouble, targeting, bombing and siege by Ali Saleh and his remnants represented in the Houthis.

Where Taiz proves beyond any doubt that the February 11 revolution is ongoing and that it really did not die, and this was reinforced by the continuity of the revolutionary act in Freedom Square in the city center, on a weekly basis, for the ninth year in a row, and before that by the armed struggle to defeat the Houthi militia that came on the back of Saleh.

Taiz played a pivotal role in igniting the fuse of the revolution, and the Freedom Square was a major inconvenience to the Saleh regime, who resorted to targeting it with bombardment, sniping, assault and storming homes, until his hatred reached to the extent of burning it on May 29, 2011.

Just as Taiz was a thorn in the throat of the regime of Ali Saleh, today it represents a solid blocking wall in the face of the Houthi militia and an invincible guard for the Republic and unity.

Although nine years have passed since the spark of the eleventh of February revolution, Taiz still bites the revolutionary act through the struggle's teeth and armed struggle, and it stands on the forelock of the dream resisting the remnants of the old regime represented by the Houthi catastrophe.