Dhaka, Jan. 14 -- During the 15-year rule of the now-ousted Awami League, the largest share of victims whose political identity the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances could verify were linked to Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir.

But among party-linked victims who vanished and never returned, 68 percent were from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its affiliate organisations, the commission says.

The findings appear in the commission's final report, a lengthy document titled "Unfolding the Truth", published on Tuesday. The 228-page report in English also sets out what it describes as the key motives behind these abductions and disappearances.

The commission says it received 1,913 complaints. After removing...