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SANAA, Feb. 12-- On Feb. 11, 2011, revolution broke out against Ali Abdullah Saleh, once the president of Yemen for more than 30 years. The revolution ended in the murder of Saleh on the hands of the Houthis, once allies of the Yemeni president. An argument spread: who led the country to the quagmire of conflict and the brink of starvation? The eighth anniversary took place with war in the country raging between the Arab coalition-backed government forces led by Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthi fighters. Houthi group controlled most of the northern provinces of Yemen and are at war with the government forces in several parts of Yemen that started four years ago. The ongoing war left behind thousands of victims, devastation of infrastructure and an economic collapse, with epidemics spreading. The United Nations said that "the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is the worst in the world." Saleh was allied with the Houthis, but differences between the two sides developed into armed fights and eventually Saleh was himself murdered in December 2017 after several years of coalition with the Houthis. With Yemen in the quagmire of violence and hunger which left millions of Yemenis without hope, the argument on the February Revolution role with the ongoing situation in Yemen was put to question. Some allies of Saleh launched an attack on February Revolution on its eighth anniversary and termed it Nakbaa or calamity. | 
