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"My client fears for his life, if and when extradited, hence the very reason for his asylum application which has been filed today," Kayishema's lawyer, Juan Smuts, told Reuters in an emailed response.

"Everyone's out here partying. I mean look at this place," tourist Jason Smuts says.

Yesterday Churchill, Smuts, Eisenhower and Arnold visited the French villages that the British have captured and liberated.

Among them are those at the centre of our current statue wars – Cecil Rhodes, Lord Kitchener, Jan Smuts – all immortalised on prominent plinths.

“This plan is a thoughtful and balanced blueprint for the future of the California desert,” said Dan Smuts, senior regional director for the Wilderness Society.