Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published its findings this morning on what happened in Mai-Kadra. the commission concluded the attack was premeditated. It was hard to read, but I worry this is not the last time we will be reading about something as awful and gruesome as this happening in Ethiopia.

There was one very small bright spot, though. Under the “humane acts in the midst of inhumanity” section, the report says,

Victims have also explained to EHRC that even though this atrocious massacre was carried out by Samri, a Tigrayan youth group, other residents, who were Tigrayan themselves, helped several of them survive by shielding them in their homes, in churches, and in farms.

An exemplary instance is the case of a Tigrayan woman who hid 13 people in her house first, before leading them to a nearby farm. She went as far as staying with them the whole night in case the group came back in search of them. Another is also of a Tigrayan woman who was hit on the arm with a machete while trying to wrestle a man away from attackers who set him on fire.