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	'''Sahara Khatun''' (1 March 1943 – 9 July 2020)<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Former Bangladesh home minister Sahara Khatun MP dies at Bangkok aged 77\|url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/2020/07/10/former-bangladesh-home-minister-sahara-khatun-mp-dies-at-bangkok-aged-77\|date=10 July 2020\|access-date=2020-07-10\|work=bdnews24.com}}</ref> was a [[Bangladesh Awami League]] politician and a cabinet minister.<ref name=sk>{{cite web \|title=About Honourable Minister \|url=http://www.mha.gov.bd/index5.php?category=104 \|work=Ministry of Home Affairs \|accessdate=11 April 2011 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927130942/http://www.mha.gov.bd/index5.php?category=104 \|archivedate=27 September 2011 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref> She was the incumbent [[Jatiyo Sangsad]] member representing the [[Dhaka-18]] constituency,<ref name=mp>{{cite web \|title=List of 9th Parliament Members \|url=http://123.49.33.144/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-9th-parliament-members-english \|website=Bangladesh Parliament \|accessdate=11 April ~~2011~~}}</ref> and was the presidium member of the party.<ref name=al>{{cite web \|title=Bangladesh Awami League – Central Committee \|url=http://www.albd.org/autoalbd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=52 \|publisher=Bangladesh Awami League \|accessdate=11 April 2011 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629034902/http://www.albd.org/autoalbd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=52 \|archivedate=29 June 2011 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref>		'''Sahara Khatun''' (1 March 1943 – 9 July 2020)<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Former Bangladesh home minister Sahara Khatun MP dies at Bangkok aged 77\|url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/2020/07/10/former-bangladesh-home-minister-sahara-khatun-mp-dies-at-bangkok-aged-77\|date=10 July 2020\|access-date=2020-07-10\|work=bdnews24.com}}</ref> was a [[Bangladesh Awami League]] politician and a cabinet minister.<ref name=sk>{{cite web \|title=About Honourable Minister \|url=http://www.mha.gov.bd/index5.php?category=104 \|work=Ministry of Home Affairs \|accessdate=11 April 2011 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927130942/http://www.mha.gov.bd/index5.php?category=104 \|archivedate=27 September 2011 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref> She was the incumbent [[Jatiyo Sangsad]] member representing the [[Dhaka-18]] constituency,<ref name=mp>{{cite web \|title=List of 9th Parliament Members \|url=http://123.49.33.144/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-9th-parliament-members-english \|website=Bangladesh Parliament \|accessdate=11 April 2022}}</ref> and was the presidium member of the party.<ref name=al>{{cite web \|title=Bangladesh Awami League – Central Committee \|url=http://www.albd.org/autoalbd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=52 \|publisher=Bangladesh Awami League \|accessdate=11 April 2011 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629034902/http://www.albd.org/autoalbd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=52 \|archivedate=29 June 2011 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref>

	==Early life==		==Early life==
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	==Political career==		==Political career==
	{{primary sources section\|date=July ~~2020~~}}		{{primary sources section\|date=July 2022}}
	Khatun was involved in politics since her student life.<ref name=sk/> She entered the national political scene in 1991 when she contested the [[1991 Bangladeshi general election\|5th Parliamentary elections]] as an [[Awami League]] candidate, and was defeated by [[Khaleda Zia]] of [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party\|BNP]], who then went on to become the [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]].<ref name=sk />		Khatun was involved in politics since her student life.<ref name=sk/> She entered the national political scene in 1991 when she contested the [[1991 Bangladeshi general election\|5th Parliamentary elections]] as an [[Awami League]] candidate, and was defeated by [[Khaleda Zia]] of [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party\|BNP]], who then went on to become the [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]].<ref name=sk />

	Khatun came in the scene again upon the arrest of current Prime Minister [[Sheikh Hasina]]. Khatun was one of the forerunners to induce a legal as well as a political battle in Hasina's favour.{{citation needed\|date=July ~~2020~~}} Khatun herself was charged with politically motivated crimes during the Caretaker Government's regime.<ref name=cg>{{cite web \|last=Kumar \|first=Anand \|date=18 April 2007 \|title=Bangladesh: Caretaker Government Targets Dynastic Politics \|url=http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers23%5Cpaper2214.html \|website=South Asia Analysis Group \|access-date=11 April 2011 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613043315/http://southasiaanalysis.org/papers23/paper2214.html \|archive-date=13 June 2010 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref>		Khatun came in the scene again upon the arrest of current Prime Minister [[Sheikh Hasina]]. Khatun was one of the forerunners to induce a legal as well as a political battle in Hasina's favour.{{citation needed\|date=July 2022}} Khatun herself was charged with politically motivated crimes during the Caretaker Government's regime.<ref name=cg>{{cite web \|last=Kumar \|first=Anand \|date=18 April 2007 \|title=Bangladesh: Caretaker Government Targets Dynastic Politics \|url=http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers23%5Cpaper2214.html \|website=South Asia Analysis Group \|access-date=11 April 2011 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613043315/http://southasiaanalysis.org/papers23/paper2214.html \|archive-date=13 June 2010 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref>

	With the exposure received in the run-up to the [[2008 Bangladesh general election]], Khatun was pitched as an Awami League candidate from the [[Dhaka-18]] constituency.<ref name=ds /> She eventually won the election,<ref name=sk /><ref name=mp /> and was then appointed as the minister of home affairs of the government of Bangladesh.<ref name=sk/> She took office on 6 January 2009.<ref name=bb>{{cite web \|title=The President appointed Sheikh Hasina as the Prime Minister \|url=http://www.bangabhaban.gov.bd/06january09.html \|publisher=Bangabhaban \|accessdate=11 April 2011 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904235158/http://www.bangabhaban.gov.bd/06january09.html \|archive-date=4 September 2011 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all }}</ref> In a cabinet reshuffle of 2012, she was relieved of her duties as the Home Minister and made the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications.<ref name=mopt>{{cite web \|url=http://www.mopt.gov.bd/all%20backup/ministermsg.htm \|title=Minister Message \|website=Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329072633/http://www.mopt.gov.bd/all%20backup/ministermsg.htm \|archive-date=29 March ~~2013~~}}</ref>		With the exposure received in the run-up to the [[2008 Bangladesh general election]], Khatun was pitched as an Awami League candidate from the [[Dhaka-18]] constituency.<ref name=ds /> She eventually won the election,<ref name=sk /><ref name=mp /> and was then appointed as the minister of home affairs of the government of Bangladesh.<ref name=sk/> She took office on 6 January 2009.<ref name=bb>{{cite web \|title=The President appointed Sheikh Hasina as the Prime Minister \|url=http://www.bangabhaban.gov.bd/06january09.html \|publisher=Bangabhaban \|accessdate=11 April 2011 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904235158/http://www.bangabhaban.gov.bd/06january09.html \|archive-date=4 September 2011 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all }}</ref> In a cabinet reshuffle of 2012, she was relieved of her duties as the Home Minister and made the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications.<ref name=mopt>{{cite web \|url=http://www.mopt.gov.bd/all%20backup/ministermsg.htm \|title=Minister Message \|website=Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329072633/http://www.mopt.gov.bd/all%20backup/ministermsg.htm \|archive-date=29 March 2022}}</ref>

	===Tenure as minister===		===Tenure as minister===
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	==== BDR mutiny ====		==== BDR mutiny ====
	{{main\|2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt}}		{{main\|2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt}}
	During the 2009 [[BDR Mutiny]], Khatun led the delegation<ref name=nego>{{cite news \|last=Manik \|first=Julfiker Ali \|date=26 February 2009 \|title=Mutiny, bloodshed at BDR HQ \|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=77491 \|newspaper=The Daily Star \|accessdate=14 April ~~2011~~}}</ref> to negotiate with the mutineers, who were soldiers staging a mutiny against their officers of [[Bangladesh Rifles]], the paramilitary force in charge of the borders. She went inside the campus of Bangladesh Rifles<ref name=nego /> to stimulate negotiation and to ask the mutineers to put their arms down.		During the 2009 [[BDR Mutiny]], Khatun led the delegation<ref name=nego>{{cite news \|last=Manik \|first=Julfiker Ali \|date=26 February 2009 \|title=Mutiny, bloodshed at BDR HQ \|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=77491 \|newspaper=The Daily Star \|accessdate=14 April 2022}}</ref> to negotiate with the mutineers, who were soldiers staging a mutiny against their officers of [[Bangladesh Rifles]], the paramilitary force in charge of the borders. She went inside the campus of Bangladesh Rifles<ref name=nego /> to stimulate negotiation and to ask the mutineers to put their arms down.

	The mutiny resulted in the death of 53 top officials of the army, and 3 family members.<ref name=dead>{{cite news \|last=Manik \|first=Julfiker Ali \|date=3 March 2009 \|title=6, not 72, army officers missing \|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=78206 \|newspaper=The Daily Star \|accessdate=14 April ~~2011~~}}</ref>		The mutiny resulted in the death of 53 top officials of the army, and 3 family members.<ref name=dead>{{cite news \|last=Manik \|first=Julfiker Ali \|date=3 March 2009 \|title=6, not 72, army officers missing \|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=78206 \|newspaper=The Daily Star \|accessdate=14 April 2022}}</ref>

	==== Extrajudicial killing ====		==== Extrajudicial killing ====
	{{see also\|Rapid Action Battalion}}		{{see also\|Rapid Action Battalion}}

	[[Awami League]] in 2008 had promised in its election manifesto that it would stop all extrajudicial killings if brought to power,<ref name=manifesto>{{cite web \|title=Election Manifesto of Bangladesh Awami League-2008 \|url=http://www.albd.org/autoalbd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=367&Itemid=1 \|publisher=Bangladesh Awami League \|accessdate=14 April 2011 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613235321/http://www.albd.org/autoalbd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=367&Itemid=1 \|archivedate=13 June 2011 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref> and [[Human Rights Watch]] observed that Awami League had failed in its promise.{{citation needed\|date=July ~~2020~~}}		[[Awami League]] in 2008 had promised in its election manifesto that it would stop all extrajudicial killings if brought to power,<ref name=manifesto>{{cite web \|title=Election Manifesto of Bangladesh Awami League-2008 \|url=http://www.albd.org/autoalbd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=367&Itemid=1 \|publisher=Bangladesh Awami League \|accessdate=14 April 2011 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613235321/http://www.albd.org/autoalbd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=367&Itemid=1 \|archivedate=13 June 2011 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref> and [[Human Rights Watch]] observed that Awami League had failed in its promise.{{citation needed\|date=July 2022}}

	==== Comment on Janmastami ====		==== Comment on Janmastami ====

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{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}}
{{EngvarB|date=September 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Sahara Khatun
| native_name = সাহারা খাতুন
| native_name_lang = bn
| image = Sahara Khatun in New Delhi on 24 February 2012.jpg
| caption = Khatun in 2012
| office1 = [[Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology|Minister of Posts and Telecommunications]]
| primeminister1 = [[Sheikh Hasina]]
| term_start1 = 15 September 2012
| term_end1 = 21 November 2013<ref>{{cite news |title = 28 ministers out, effectively|url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/uncategorized/2013/11/21/28-ministers-out-effectively-2 |newspaper=Dhaka Tribune |date=21 November 2013|access-date=2020-04-03}}</ref>
| predecessor1 = [[Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju]]
| successor1 = [[Rashed Khan Menon]]
| office2 = [[Ministry of Home Affairs (Bangladesh)|Minister of Home Affairs]]
| primeminister2 = [[Sheikh Hasina]]
| term_start2 = 6 January 2009
| term_end2 = 15 September 2012
| predecessor2 = [[Altaf Hossain Chowdhury]]
| successor2 = [[Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir]]<ref>{{cite news |date=16 September 2012 |title=MKA replaces Shahara |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-249887 |newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref>
| constituency_MP3 = [[Dhaka-18]]
| term_start3 = 6 January 2009
| term_end3 = 9 July 2020
| predecessor3 = ''Redistricted''
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1943|3|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Dhaka]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| party = [[Bangladesh Awami League]]
| occupation = Lawyer and politician
| education = L.L.B<ref>{{Cite web|title=Constituency 191 - Dhaka 18|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/current-mp-s/list-of-11th-parliament-members-english/309-mps-category/mps-of-11th-parliament/3751-constituency-191-11th-en|access-date=2021-05-23|website=www.parliament.gov.bd}}</ref>
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2020|7|9|1943|3|1}}
| death_place = [[Bangkok]], Thailand
| successor3 = [[Mohammad Habib Hasan]]
}}

'''Sahara Khatun''' (1 March 1943 – 9 July 2020)<ref>{{Cite news |title=Former Bangladesh home minister Sahara Khatun MP dies at Bangkok aged 77|url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/2020/07/10/former-bangladesh-home-minister-sahara-khatun-mp-dies-at-bangkok-aged-77|date=10 July 2020|access-date=2020-07-10|work=bdnews24.com}}</ref> was a [[Bangladesh Awami League]] politician and a cabinet minister.<ref name=sk>{{cite web |title=About Honourable Minister |url=http://www.mha.gov.bd/index5.php?category=104 |work=Ministry of Home Affairs |accessdate=11 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927130942/http://www.mha.gov.bd/index5.php?category=104 |archivedate=27 September 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> She was the incumbent [[Jatiyo Sangsad]] member representing the [[Dhaka-18]] constituency,<ref name=mp>{{cite web |title=List of 9th Parliament Members |url=http://123.49.33.144/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-9th-parliament-members-english |website=Bangladesh Parliament |accessdate=11 April 2011}}</ref> and was the presidium member of the party.<ref name=al>{{cite web |title=Bangladesh Awami League – Central Committee |url=http://www.albd.org/autoalbd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=52 |publisher=Bangladesh Awami League |accessdate=11 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629034902/http://www.albd.org/autoalbd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=52 |archivedate=29 June 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Early life==
Khatun was born in [[Kurmitola]] in [[Dhaka]] on 1 March 1943 to Abdul Aziz and Turjan Nesa.<ref name=ds>{{cite news |title=Profile of Ministers |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/profile/index.htm |newspaper=The Daily Star |accessdate=2018-11-27|archivedate=2013-01-26|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126034248/http://www.thedailystar.net/profile/index.htm}}</ref> She completed BA and [[LLB]] degrees. She was the presidium member of Bangladesh Awami League, founding president of Bangladesh Awami Ainjibi Parishad and general secretary of [[Bangladesh Mahila Samity]], as well as a member of the International Women Lawyers' Association and the International Women's Alliance. She started her career as a lawyer, and rose to fight cases at the [[Supreme Court of Bangladesh]].

==Political career==
{{primary sources section|date=July 2020}}
Khatun was involved in politics since her student life.<ref name=sk/> She entered the national political scene in 1991 when she contested the [[1991 Bangladeshi general election|5th Parliamentary elections]] as an [[Awami League]] candidate, and was defeated by [[Khaleda Zia]] of [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party|BNP]], who then went on to become the [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]].<ref name=sk />

Khatun came in the scene again upon the arrest of current Prime Minister [[Sheikh Hasina]]. Khatun was one of the forerunners to induce a legal as well as a political battle in Hasina's favour.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} Khatun herself was charged with politically motivated crimes during the Caretaker Government's regime.<ref name=cg>{{cite web |last=Kumar |first=Anand |date=18 April 2007 |title=Bangladesh: Caretaker Government Targets Dynastic Politics |url=http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers23%5Cpaper2214.html |website=South Asia Analysis Group |access-date=11 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613043315/http://southasiaanalysis.org/papers23/paper2214.html |archive-date=13 June 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

With the exposure received in the run-up to the [[2008 Bangladesh general election]], Khatun was pitched as an Awami League candidate from the [[Dhaka-18]] constituency.<ref name=ds /> She eventually won the election,<ref name=sk /><ref name=mp /> and was then appointed as the minister of home affairs of the government of Bangladesh.<ref name=sk/> She took office on 6 January 2009.<ref name=bb>{{cite web |title=The President appointed Sheikh Hasina as the Prime Minister |url=http://www.bangabhaban.gov.bd/06january09.html |publisher=Bangabhaban |accessdate=11 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904235158/http://www.bangabhaban.gov.bd/06january09.html |archive-date=4 September 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In a cabinet reshuffle of 2012, she was relieved of her duties as the Home Minister and made the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications.<ref name=mopt>{{cite web |url=http://www.mopt.gov.bd/all%20backup/ministermsg.htm |title=Minister Message |website=Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329072633/http://www.mopt.gov.bd/all%20backup/ministermsg.htm |archive-date=29 March 2013}}</ref>

===Tenure as minister===

Khatun's tenure as minister of home affairs has been marred by the following controversies.

==== BDR mutiny ====
{{main|2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt}}
During the 2009 [[BDR Mutiny]], Khatun led the delegation<ref name=nego>{{cite news |last=Manik |first=Julfiker Ali |date=26 February 2009 |title=Mutiny, bloodshed at BDR HQ |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=77491 |newspaper=The Daily Star |accessdate=14 April 2011}}</ref> to negotiate with the mutineers, who were soldiers staging a mutiny against their officers of [[Bangladesh Rifles]], the paramilitary force in charge of the borders. She went inside the campus of Bangladesh Rifles<ref name=nego /> to stimulate negotiation and to ask the mutineers to put their arms down.

The mutiny resulted in the death of 53 top officials of the army, and 3 family members.<ref name=dead>{{cite news |last=Manik |first=Julfiker Ali |date=3 March 2009 |title=6, not 72, army officers missing |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=78206 |newspaper=The Daily Star |accessdate=14 April 2011}}</ref>

==== Extrajudicial killing ====
{{see also|Rapid Action Battalion}}

[[Awami League]] in 2008 had promised in its election manifesto that it would stop all extrajudicial killings if brought to power,<ref name=manifesto>{{cite web |title=Election Manifesto of Bangladesh Awami League-2008 |url=http://www.albd.org/autoalbd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=367&Itemid=1 |publisher=Bangladesh Awami League |accessdate=14 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613235321/http://www.albd.org/autoalbd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=367&Itemid=1 |archivedate=13 June 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and [[Human Rights Watch]] observed that Awami League had failed in its promise.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

==== Comment on Janmastami ====
Khatun attracted criticism in August 2010 when she asked the [[Hindu]]-minorities to cut their religious festival [[Janmastami]] short, so that it wouldn't clash with the [[Muslim]]-majority observances of [[Ramadan]], as they coincided with the same time period. She urged the Hindu community not to make loud noises during sunset, when Muslims would be having [[iftar]].<ref name=slammed>{{cite news |date=31 August 2010 |title=Bangladesh minister Sahara Khatun slammed for comments on Janmashtami |url=http://news.worldsnap.com/blog-opinion/bangladesh-minister-sahara-khatun-slammed-for-comments-on-janmashtami-90919.html |newspaper=World Snap |accessdate=14 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823053917/http://news.worldsnap.com/blog-opinion/bangladesh-minister-sahara-khatun-slammed-for-comments-on-janmashtami-90919.html |archive-date=23 August 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Her comments were considered discriminatory, since a limitation on minority celebrations was being imposed for the first time; Hindu festivals had previously coincided with [[Ramadan]] in Bangladesh.<ref name=slammed />

== Death ==
Khatun died on 9 July 2020 at the [[Bumrungrad International Hospital]] in [[Bangkok]], Thailand, due to [[COVID-19]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 July 2020|title=Former home minister Sahara Khatun passes away|url=https://tbsnews.net/bangladesh/obituary/former-home-minister-sahara-khatun-passes-away-104281|access-date=2020-07-09|work=The Business Standard|language=en}}</ref>

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