Ko Htwe

{{Family name hatnote|Htwe|lang=Burmese}}

{{Burmese name|Yebaw}}

{{Burmese name|Ko}}

{{Short description|19 July martyr of Burma}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}

{{Infobox person

| honorific_prefix = Yebaw
Ko

| name = Htwe

| native_name = {{lang|my|ကိုထွေး}}

| image = Ye Baw Ko Htwe.png

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| caption =

| birth_name = Mg Htwe

| other_names =

| birth_date = {{birth year|1929|}}

| birth_place = Mandalay, British Burma

| death_date = {{death date and age|1947|7|19|1929|df=yes}}

| death_place = Rangoon, British Burma

| death_cause =

| resting_place =

| nationality = Burmese

| known_for = U Razak's bodyguard and Martyr of Burma

| occupation =

| parents = Ko Ko Lay (father)
Min Yi (mother)

}}

Htwe ({{langx|my|ထွေး}}, {{IPA|my|tʰwé|pron}}; 1929 – 19 July 1947), known honorifically as Yebaw Ko Htwe, was a Burmese security officer who was killed in the assassination of Burmese pre-independence government leaders on 19 July 1947.{{cite news |title=Paying tribute to the country's heroes |url=https://www.mmtimes.com/gallery/paying-tribute-countrys-heroes.html |work=The Myanmar Times |date=22 July 2019}}{{cite news |title=What did we learn from the martyrs? |url=https://www.mmtimes.com/news/what-did-we-learn-martyrs.html |work=The Myanmar Times |date=19 July 2018}}{{cite news |title=Nation commemorates 69th Martyrs' Day anniversary |url=https://www.mmtimes.com/in-pictures/21489-nation-commemorates-martyrs-day-69th-anniversary.html |work=The Myanmar Times |date=20 July 2016}}{{cite news |title=The 70th Myanmar Martyr's Day |url=https://yangonlife.com.mm/en/article/70th-myanmar-martyr’s-day |work=Yangon Life |date=19 July 2017 |language=en}} 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.{{cite journal | title=Brief Biographies of the Martyrs | author=Tin Naing Toe | language=Burmese | url=http://www.news-eleven.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3827:2010-07-18-03-26-08&catid=78:2009-11-13-06-25-17&Itemid=135 | journal=Bi-Weekly Eleven | publisher=Weekly Eleven Publishing Group | date=18 July 2010}} 19 July is commemorated each year as the Martyrs' Day in Myanmar.{{cite news |title=Yebaw Ko Htwe, An Arzarni Adhering To Duty |url=https://www.gnlm.com.mm/yebaw-ko-htwe-an-arzarni-adhering-to-duty/ |work=Global New Light of Myanmar |date=17 July 2018}}{{cite news |title=Muse residents disapprove of plan to install only Gen. Aung San statue |url=https://www.bnionline.net/en/news/muse-residents-disapprove-plan-install-only-gen-aung-san-statue |work=Burma News International |date=6 March 2018 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=အာဇာနည်တွေကို မမေ့ကြပါနဲ့… |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/article/2017/07/17/138708.html |work=The Irrawaddy |date=17 July 2017}}{{cite news |title=အာဇာနည်များ ကိုယ်ရေးအကျဉ်း |url=http://mizzimaburmese.com/article/29519|work=Mizzima |language =my|date=19 July 2017}}{{cite news |title=ရဲဘော် ကိုထွေးအတွက် သမိုင်းကွက်လပ်ဖြည့်ခြင်း |url=https://7day.news/ရဲဘော်-ကိုထွေးအတွက်-သမိုင်းကွက်လပ်ဖြည့်ခြင်း-----102125 |work=7Day News |date=19 July 2019 |language=my}}{{cite news |title=လူမသိသူမသိ အာဇာနည်နေ့ အကြောင်း ၉ ချက် |url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/in-depth-40639332 |work=BBC News မြန်မာ |date=18 July 2017 |language=my}}{{cite news |title=Myanmar ignores ethnic divisions to honor Muslim martyr |url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/myanmar-ignores-ethnic-divisions-to-honor-muslim-martyr/611127 |work=www.aa.com.tr |date=19 July 2016}}

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.{{cite book |title=Forward |year=1983|publisher=Department of Information and Broadcasting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAbjAAAAMAAJ&q=yebaw+ko+htwe |language=en}}{{cite news |title=၇၃ နှစ်မြောက် အာဇာနည်နေ့တွင် တာမွေမြို့နယ် မွတ်စလင်သချႋုင်းရှိ ဦးရာဇတ်နှင့် ရဲဘော်ကိုထွေးအုတ်ဂူ၌ အခမ်းအနား မပြုလုပ်ဘဲ တစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်ချင်းဖြင့် လာရောက်ဂါရဝပြု |url=https://news-eleven.com/article/183421|work=Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd |date=19 July 2020 |language=my}}{{cite news |title=ဦးရာဇတ်နှင့် ရဲဘော်ကိုထွေးတို့၏ ဂူဗိမာန်တွင် မိသားစုဝင်မာျးနှင့် ပြည်သူများ ဂါရဝပြု |url=http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/159918 |work=DVB |date=19 July 2016 |language=en}}