[An Nahar] Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi warned on Sunday, hours after being sworn in, that there will be "no leniency" for those who commit acts of violence.Welcome to the Arab Autumn.
In a televised address to the nation, Sisi promised to work toward "reconciliation" but not with those who have "shed blood."
Sisi ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi
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its leaders and put them on trial.
Sisi said there will be "no leniency and truce with those who resort to violence."
"I am looking to a new era built on reconciliation and tolerance... except with those who committed crimes or used violence as a tool," he said.
"I am saying clearly that those who shed the blood of the innocent and killed ... the sons of Egypt, they don't have a place in (our) march."
Sisi was sworn in earlier in the day following a landslide election almost a year after he deposed Morsi.
The retired field marshal took the oath of office at the heavily guarded Constitutional Court and then left to attend a reception with foreign dignitaries.
Western countries alarmed by the brutal crackdown on dissent following the overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi last year mostly sent low level representatives.
Sisi scored a lopsided victory last month in an election boycotted by Morsi's Moslem Br�derbund and secular dissidents, also targeted by the army-installed government in the wide-ranging crackdown.