Today is April 27. Nine years ago, several hundred masked demonstrators entered the Macedonian Sobranje - they entered with fists and with a purpose: to prevent the election of Talat Xhaferi as speaker. The result: over 100 injured, including then-SDSM leader Zoran Zaev. This is not merely a historical fact. This is a constitutive moment of contemporary Macedonian democracy.

The event was the culmination of a political crisis that began in 2015 - the "Bombs" wiretap scandal, Gruevski. Politicians who lacked parliamentary support took the fight to the streets. Their followers entered that building with the aim of killing the political process. And by a hair - they succeeded in leaving a permanent mark.

Today, some of those convicted are still seeking retrial. The 2018 amnesty law freed some of them - and ignited a new debate about "reconciliation versus justice." Racin writes: "Neither amnesty nor amnesia." Precisely. Without full accountability, Macedonia risks repeating the same mistakes - in different packaging.

April 27 is not just "one day." It is a mirror. And the question we must ask is not only "Did anyone face consequences?" - but "Did we understand why it happened?"