AA Builds New Rakhine Village on Rohingya Land in Sin Oe Pyin Ywar Gyi (Saow Parang), Buthidaung Township

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Arakan Now | 10 December 2025

The Arakan Army (AA) has been establishing several new Rakhine villages on former Rohingya villages and farmland in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships of Rakhine State.

According to local sources, the Arakan Army has constructed a new Rakhine village with more than 100 households in Sin Oe Pyin Ywar Gyi (Saow Parang), a northern Rohingya village in Buthidaung Township. Farmland has reportedly been distributed as part of the settlement.

A local resident speaking to Arakan Now said that the AA has been expanding Rakhine settlements across Rohingya villages, with seized farmland allocated to new settlers. The source added that Rakhine people from other townships are being brought to the area to settle.

Arakan Now recently reported on another settlement development in Buthidaung Township, where a new village was constructed between the Rohingya villages of Ywet Nyo Taung (Rongia Daung) and U Hla Hpay. That report can be read at the following link: https://www.arakannow.com/rohingya-villages-demolished-new-rakhine-settlements-built-in-maungdaw-and-buthidaung-rohingya-lan

In 2017, following genocidal attacks against the Rohingya, the military junta burned down numerous Rohingya villages, forcing hundreds of thousands of residents to flee to Bangladesh. Local sources now report that the AA is seizing those Rohingya villages and farmland in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships to create new Rakhine settlements, with land redistributed to incoming settlers.

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