GUINEA: MASS RALLY PLEDGES SUPPORT TO PRESIDENT SEKOU TOURE AMID REPORTS OF IMMINENT COUP.

Record ID: 215197

  • Title: GUINEA: MASS RALLY PLEDGES SUPPORT TO PRESIDENT SEKOU TOURE AMID REPORTS OF IMMINENT COUP.
  • Date: 26th January 1969
  • Summary: 1. LV SEKOU TOURE SPEAKING. 0.03 2. GV CROWD. 0.06 3. GV SEKOU TOURE SPEAKING. 0.16 4. SV SEKOU TOURE THROUGH CROWD WAVING. (2 SHOTS) 0.24 5. PAN - CROWD. 0.27 6. LV SEKOU TOURE ARRIVES AT MEMORIAL. 0.36 7. SV PRESIDENT LAYING WREATH. 0.48 8. SV + CU PRESIDENT STANDING AT MEMORIAL. 0.57 9. PAN - MASSED CROWD.
  • Embargoed: 10th February 1969 13:00
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  • Location: CONAKRY, GUINEA
  • Country: Guinea
  • Reuters ID: LVA6DCOJGMBOS1T3UZECDWIMS8X5
  • Story Text: IN CONAKRY, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DEMONSTRATING THEIR LOYALTY TO GUINEA PRESIDENT AMMED SEKOU TOURE, WHO HAS CLAIMED THAT THE FORMER FRENCH COLONY IS BEING THREATENED BY AN IMMINENT COUP IN WHICH FRANCE WAS SAID TO BE INVOLVED. AS CROWDS DEMONSTRATED BETWEEN THE ONE-TIME COLONY AND FRANCE HAS SEEN MOUNTING WITH ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT BEING BROADCAST OVER CONAKRY RADIO.

    DOTTED AMONG THE CROWDS IN THE CONAKRY RALLY, AND STRUNG ACROSS THE CAPITAL'S STREETS, WHERE BANNERS PLEDGING FAITH TO THE PRESIDENT AND HIS RULING NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL.

    PRESIDENT SEKOU TOURE HAS HELD OFFICE SINCE THE WEST AFRICAN STATE LEFT THE FRENCH UNION AND BECAME AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC IN OCTOBER 1958.

    IN TWO RECENT ATTACKS ON THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT, BROADCAST OVER CONAKRY RADIO, PRESIDENT SEKOU TOURE, AS 'IMPERIALIST' AND SAID FRANCE HAD FAILED TO CO-OPERATE WITH GUINEA AND HAD FAILED TO MEET INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS TOWARDS GUINEAN VETERANS OF THE FRENCH FORCES.

    IN THE SECOND ATTACK, PRESIDENT SEKOU TOURE CLAIMED THAT A COUP WAS BEING PREPARED AGAINST HIS GOVERNMENT IN WHICH FRANCE WAS SAID TO BE INVOLVED.

    THE NAMES OF CERTAIN FRENCH AUTHORITIES HAD BEEN OUTED IN THIS CONNEXION, HE SAID, AND HIS GOVERNMENT KNEW OF A MERCENARY WHO HAD "BEEN GIVEN A MANDATE TO COME TO GUINEA UNDER A NATIONALITY FOREIGN TO FRANCE."
    PRESIDENT SEKOU TOURE SAID THAT LAST MONTH A GROUP OF CONSPIRATORS HAD HELD A MEETING ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF CONAKRY. HE GAVE FEW DETAILS OF THE ALLEGED PLOT, BUT SAID THAT THE CONSPIRATORS WOULD BE "CRUSHED LIKE BUGS."
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