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'De war done done' (said when Bureh was captured by the British) The British were well aware of Bai Bureh's folk hero status he had cultivated during the war, which made them less inclined to hang him. It was too much of a risk to take: by killing Bai Bureh they would have likely created a martyr. Such actions would have led to a battle cry for freedom against British rule in Sierra Leone and if the British were defeated there, then that would have emboldened their subjects in other regions to rebel, threatening their Imperial rule in West Africa.
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