Ko Htwe Explained

Honorific Prefix:	Comrade
Ko Htwe
Birth Name:	Mg Htwe
Birth Place:	Mandalay, British Burma
Death Place:	Rangoon, British Burma
Nationality:	Burmese
Known For:	U Razak's bodyguard and Martyr of Burma
Parents:	Ko Ko Lay (father) Min Yi (mother)

Ko Htwe (Burmese: ကိုထွေး, in Burmese pronounced as /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]}

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]}

Notes and References

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