Career

He was a bodyguard of U Razak, the Minister of Minister 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.

July 19 is commemorated each year as the Martyrs" Day in Myanmar.

Htwe was only 18 at his death.