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Ko Htwe

Ko Htwe

19 July martyr of Burma


Ko Htwe (Burmese: ကိုထွေး, pronounced [ 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]

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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. "The 70th Myanmar Martyr's Day". Yangon Life. 19 July 2017.
  4. Tin Naing Toe (18 July 2010). "Brief Biographies of the Martyrs". Bi-Weekly Eleven (in Burmese). Weekly Eleven Publishing Group.
  5. "Yebaw Ko Htwe, An Arzarni Adhering To Duty". Global New Light of Myanmar. 17 July 2018.
  6. Forward. Department of Information and Broadcasting. 1983.

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