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"I saw something that is very hard, I don't want to talk about it," she said as she boarded a car with several others for the onward journey to the Armenian capital Yerevan.

Until now the Church and government had found a way to co-exist, but the row threatens to split an already polarised Armenian society still further – and affect the outcome of next year's election.

They added that his father, of Armenian origin, had not lived with them since his parents' separation.

More groups were added as potential study topics, including Jewish Americans, Sikhs and Armenians.

For a long time, he thought being a biracial comic meant he had to choose between his mother’s Mexican heritage and his father’s Armenian roots in order to find an audience.