Page "Military of Guinea" Paragraph 9

In 1969, the militia was officially granted a role equivalent to the army, as a counterbalance in any military coup d ' état.

The elements in the Conakry area were issued small arms and given military training.

Touré had heralded this policy in 1967 when he wrote: ‘ thanks to their special political, physical, and social training, the people's militia will become the indisputable mainspring of our security system, of which the conventional armed forces constitute a fundamental section .’