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, 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

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) and a deputy minister were killed in their meeting room at the

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compound in downtown

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. 19 July is commemorated each year as the

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in Myanmar. 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

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