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Georgia Draft Policy
The role of Soviet military and internal security forces in
the April Tragedy made Georgian connections with those forces a
primary target of anticommunist groups. As in other Soviet
republics, opposition to the draft became an early focus of
opposition activities. Of all the Soviet republics, Georgia had
the lowest rate of recruitment in the fall of 1990, approximately
10 percent of eligible citizens. One of the first acts passed by
Gamsakhurdia's parliament ended the Soviet military draft on
Georgian territory.
In late 1990, Soviet conscription was replaced with the
induction of eligible Georgian males into new "special
divisions," under the control of the Georgian Ministry of
Internal Affairs, for the maintenance of order within the
republic. The new body, which became Kitovani's National Guard,
was one of the first official non-Soviet military units in what
was still the Soviet Union.
Data as of March 1994
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