(Return tabled) Question No. 1200 Hon. Geoff Regan: With regard to military costs, for each of fiscal years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, what were the total costs for salaries, operations and maintenance for the (i) Office of the Judge Advocate General, (ii) Office of the Chief Military Judge, (iii) Office of the Director Military Prosecutions, (iv) Office of the Defence Counsel Services, (v) Office of the Deputy Judge Advocate General-Military Justice?

A few hours ago, news arrived from Italy that the Milan investigating judge has signed a protective custody warrant against the deputy director of the Sismi, the Italian military security service, for acting as an accomplice in the abduction of Abu Omar, the Milan imam who was kidnapped, in whose case another twenty-two preventative custody warrants have been issued against CIA agents.

The restrictive measures now include visa restrictions, a freezing of assets and economic resources covering some 386 people: SPDC (State Peace and Development Council), Regional Commanders and Deputy Regional Commanders, ministers, general military officers (from Brigadier), officials responsible for managing prisons and the police, people who benefit from the Government's economic policy and managers of companies belonging to members of the armed forces and their families; prohibition of the award of loans/credits and of participation in Burmese public companies, covering 41 companies or organisations, an arms embargo and ban on expor ...[+++]ts of equipment for internal repression; the suspension of non-humanitarian aid programmes (with exceptions in key areas such as health, education and poverty reduction); diplomatic measures, which include the suspension of high-level visits to Burma/Myanmar and the withdrawal of military attachés from the embassies of EU Member States.

In that case, it was found that the power the director of military prosecutions had at the time to select the type of court martial that would try an accused person, and the duty the court martial administrator had to convene the type of court martial selected by the director of military prosecutions, violated an accused person's constitutional right to make full answer and defence, and to control the conduct of that defence.

creation of new positions within the military justice system – the Director of Military Prosecutions and the Director of Defence Counsel Services – thus segregating the functions of investigation, prosecution and defence of accused persons;

creation of new positions within the military justice system – the Director of Military Prosecutions and the Director of Defence Counsel Services – thus segregating the functions of investigation, prosecution and defence of accused persons;