Dhaka, Nov. 30 -- Deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina "gave the go-ahead" to the brutal carnage in the BDR mutiny of 2009 in which 57 army officers were killed, the National Independent Inquiry Commission has said.

In its investigation report filed on Sunday, the commission found "strong evidence of direct involvement" of the then ruling party, the Awami League.

The massacre was planned, and former member of parliament Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh played the chief coordinator's role, the investigators claimed.

The report also said there is evidence of the "direct involvement of foreign powers" in the incident.

Retired major general ALM Fazlur Rahman, head of the commission, and another commission member, retired maj gen Jahangir Kabir Ta...