Dhaka, Dec. 5 -- More than sixteen years after the 2009 massacre at the headquarters of the then-Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), a newly formed National Independent Investigation Commission has submitted a sweeping report that raises fresh questions about the political and foreign dimensions of one of Bangladesh's deadliest peacetime tragedies.

The 360-page report - handed to Chief Adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus on Sunday - alleges extensive involvement of several senior members of the Sheikh family, including barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh and Awami League politician Sheikh Selim, in the events that preceded the mutiny and mass killings on February 25-26, 2009.

The commission further claims that Indian intelligence officials were directly inv...