25 years since Vejce - and the memorial still stays unresolved. Delegations from the government and the political parties laid wreaths today by the monument to the Macedonian soldiers who were killed in the 2001 conflict in the village of Vejce.

For the Macedonian public the 2001 event in Vejce is one of the most painful chapters of that armed conflict. The soldiers were killed in an ambush, and the investigations never produced fully convincing conclusions. Some of the accused were convicted, others acquitted, others pardoned. For the families of the dead, that means 25 years without a closed circle.

We remember - but without resolution. We commemorate - but without justice. The questions that already existed straight after the conflict - what the tactical errors were, whether there had been political intervention while the operations were running, and why the report was never fully declassified - are still without answers.

Delegations from the government, the Ministry of Defence, and the opposition parties. All of them turn up once a year. All of them tell themselves "we will never forget". But not forgetting is one thing - not resolving is something else.

The question that has not found an answer in 25 years: will the full truth about Vejce ever be published, or will it stay locked in archives until the moment when none of the participants in the event are still alive?