the evidence obtained by the panel revealed "a very different version of the final stages of the war than that maintained to this day by the government of sri lanka". the panel found "credible allegations, which if proven, indicate that a wide range of serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law were committed both by the government of sri lanka and the ltte, some of which would amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity". the panel concluded that the "conduct of the war represented a grave assault on the entire regime of international law designed to protect individual dignity during both war and peace".