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Singh is a common surname in the Sikh community from India’s state of Punjab.

His mother later married a British officer and the family relocated to England, where young Stoppard took his stepfather’s surname and “put on Englishness like a coat,” he later said.

Then she married British Army Major Kenneth Stoppard, who gave the family a new surname and moved them to England in 1946.

Few know her real name, María Harfuch Hidalgo, whose paternal surname reflects her Lebanese ancestry.

"We demand freedom and security, an end to the killings and to kidnappings," she said, also declining to provide her surname.