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“168 Zham” writes that the promise made by Armenia’s new President Serzh Sarkisian in his inauguration speech to be the president also for the citizens who did not vote for him had raised hopes that immediately after being sworn in as the new head of state he would hurry to the Myasnikian monument, one of the main scenes of the March 1 bloodshed, to pay tribute to the memory of the eight citizens who died that night, “citizens for whom he could not be a president but in whose deaths he admitted his share of responsibility.”