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The Bush Crimes Commission, or International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration, is a body set up by opponents to George Bush. It is not a judicial, government or UN appointed commission, but rather is run by a coalition of human rights and peace activist groups. The formation of the commission was initiated by Not In Our Name as a political instrument examining alleged war crimes and human rights violations perpetrated by the George W. Bush Administration.

Mock Indictments
The Commission purported to deliver indictments to members of the Bush Administration at the White House on January 10, 2006. President Bush and top members of his staff, including US Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, were purportedly indicted at the tribunal's first session. The indictments allege war crimes and crimes against humanity authorized by the Bush Administration in relation to:
 * 1) Wars of aggression, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan
 * 2) Torture and indefinite detention of prisoners and captives
 * 3) Destruction of the global environment, distortion of science and obstruction of efforts to stem global warming;
 * 4) Attacks on global public health and reproductive rights, potentially genocidal effects of enforcing abstinence-only, and global gag rule concerning abortion
 * 5) Failure to to protect life during and after Hurricane Katrina, despite foreknowledge

Mock Tribunal
Between January 20 and 22, 2006, the Bush Crime Commission held hearings at the Riverside Church and Columbia University Law School in New York, New York. The Bush White House was invited to defend itself at the tribunal. The tribunal was endorsed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Lawyers Guild, After Downing Street.org and others.. Among the witnesses at the tribunal:
 * Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, former commander of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
 * Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan who exposed the use of information gathered through torture
 * Scott Ritter, former arms inspector
 * Ray McGovern, ex-Central Intelligence Agency analyst
 * Dahr Jamail, a journalist who has reported extensively from Iraq
 * Michael Ratner, lawyer for Guantanamo Bay prisoners

The commission heard first-hand allegations of systematic torture in Iraq and Uzbekistan, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some prisoners are said to have been held for over five years without charges filed and young children are imprisoned. There was testimony alleging unreported rapes and suicides of female soldiers serving in Iraq. Also alleged was reckless pollution of the Great Lakes and Arctic regions attributed to the Bush Administration's policies, which were said to favor industry and big business over the interests of citizens.

Craig Murray, a former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, testified of his experiences in a country he described as having "possibly the worst government in the world." He said sixty percent of the Uzbek population lives in slavery, and that torture is commonplace there, in a police state where people such as Muzafar Avazov are literally boiled alive. The the US and UK governments routinely accept intelligence, he said, from Uzbek security forces who torture their prisoners, even to death.

Barbara Olshansky, a lawyer who represents Guantanamo Bay inmates, claimed that nearly half the prisoners have been on a hunger strike for months. She also testified that many have been beaten and are now being force fed through their nostrils while strapped to gurneys. Se also said inmates face great difficulty in being seen by family members, as most of their families reside in the Middle East.

Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network testified about pollution, from runoffs from various industrial sites, of the Great Lakes and of fisheries regularly used by Native Americans. Other allegations included the oil spills in arctic regions, destruction of the ozone layer, and contamination of lake waters with aluminum runoff on the operators of a General Motors manufacturing plant.