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Suneeta Millington is a Canadian diplomat and lawyer. She is notable for her participation in the development of the treaty banning anti-personnel land-mines, and for her consular visits to Canadian Guantanamo captive Omar Khadr. Millington has written that she quickly established a good rapport with Khadr. She wrote that in 2008 his guards in Camp 4 were treating Khadr well, but that the officers with the Office of Military Commissions had been failing to cooperate with Canada's efforts to monitor the progress of Khadr's military commission, by withholding from her the documents necessary to understand what was going on in the courtroom.

In January 2008 Millington was one of Canada's delegates to a United Nations conference in Geneva on prohibited weapons.

Leaked memos recorded that Millington noted that camp authorities had denied Khadr: (1) a pillow; (2) a blanket; (3) sunglasses to protect his injured eye -- due to "security concerns".

Michelle Shephard, author of The Guantanamo Files, quoted extensively from Millington's memos on her consular visits.

According to Shephard Millington noted that camp guards seemed to like Khadr, and to make efforts to help him. Millington noted that Khadr didn't seem bitter. Millington noted that Khadr "wasn't keen to call his family in Canada". Millington noted that when she first visited Khadr he was despondent, and had lost hope of returning to Canada, but that, during her visits, she was able to draw him out.

In another leaked memo Millington commented on her negotiations with Iraqi officials over the status Canadian military observers embedded with US forces in Iraq. American soldiers in Iraq were not subject to prosecution in the Iraqi justice system. Because Canadian soldiers embedded with Americans did not enjoy this immunity they could be prosecuted for acts committed by the Americans they were embedded with.

Millington is a founder of the group Prime Minister's Row.