Ko Htwe

Ko Htwe (Burmese: ကိုထွေး, pronounced [kò tʰwé]; 1929 – 19 July 1947) was a Burmese security officer who was killed in the assassination of Burmese pre-independence government leaders on 19 July 1947.^[1][2][3][4] He was a bodyguard of U Razak, the Minister for Ministry of Education and National Planning. Ko Htwe was the lone non-office holder who was killed. Seven cabinet ministers (including Prime Minister Aung San) and a deputy minister were killed in their meeting room at the Secretariat compound in downtown Yangon.^[5] 19 July is commemorated each year as the Martyrs' Day in Myanmar.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]}

Comrade Ko Htwe
ကိုထွေး
Born	Mg Htwe 1929 (1929) Mandalay, British Burma
Died	19 July 1947(1947-07-19) (aged 17–18) Rangoon, British Burma
Nationality	Burmese
Known for	U Razak's bodyguard and Martyr of Burma
Parent(s)	Ko Ko Lay (father) Min Yi (mother)

Htwe was only 18 at his death. He was born to Ko Ko Lay, an officer at the Department of Agriculture and his wife Min Yi in Mandalay.^{[5][13][14][15]}

References

1. "Paying tribute to the country's heroes". The Myanmar Times. 22 July 2019.
2. "What did we learn from the martyrs?". The Myanmar Times. 19 July 2018.
3. "Nation commemorates 69th Martyrs' Day anniversary". The Myanmar Times. 20 July 2016.
4. "The 70th Myanmar Martyr's Day". Yangon Life. 19 July 2017.
5. Tin Naing Toe (18 July 2010). "Brief Biographies of the Martyrs". Bi-Weekly Eleven (in Burmese). Weekly Eleven Publishing Group.
6. "Yebaw Ko Htwe, An Arzarni Adhering To Duty". Global New Light of Myanmar. 17 July 2018.
7. "Muse residents disapprove of plan to install only Gen. Aung San statue". Burma News International. 6 March 2018.
8. "အာဇာနည်တွေကို မမေ့ကြပါနဲ့…". The Irrawaddy. 17 July 2017.
9. "အာဇာနည်များ ကိုယ်ရေးအကျဉ်း". Mizzima (in Burmese). 19 July 2017.
10. "ရဲဘော် ကိုထွေးအတွက် သမိုင်းကွက်လပ်ဖြည့်ခြင်း". 7Day News (in Burmese). 19 July 2019.
11. "လူမသိသူမသိ အာဇာနည်နေ့ အကြောင်း ၉ ချက်". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). 18 July 2017.
12. "Myanmar ignores ethnic divisions to honor Muslim martyr". www.aa.com.tr. 19 July 2016.
13. Forward. Department of Information and Broadcasting. 1983.
14. "၇၃ နှစ်မြောက် အာဇာနည်နေ့တွင် တာမွေမြို့နယ် မွတ်စလင်သချႋုင်းရှိ ဦးရာဇတ်နှင့် ရဲဘော်ကိုထွေးအုတ်ဂူ၌ အခမ်းအနား မပြုလုပ်ဘဲ တစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်ချင်းဖြင့် လာရောက်ဂါရဝပြု". Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd (in Burmese). 19 July 2020.
15. "ဦးရာဇတ်နှင့် ရဲဘော်ကိုထွေးတို့၏ ဂူဗိမာန်တွင် မိသားစုဝင်မာျးနှင့် ပြည်သူများ ဂါရဝပြု". DVB. 19 July 2016.