The residents, who fled from Buthidaung township in RakhineState, stated that many houses belonging to Rakhine people were demolished andtorched by the junta forces. They took help from  ARSA members and armedMuslims, who had completed military training.

A Buthidaung resident informed Narinjara News that since 14 April, a group ofMuslim supporters from the  junta along with ARSA members and trainedMuslims vandalised many houses in the township.

"All our houses were burned down. Shops werebroken and then set on fire. Now, the abandoned Rakhine houses are being burnt.They have not targeted the Muslim-owned houses and shops. We're at a loss forwords," added the resident.

A woman, who fled from Buthidaung, said that her house was destroyed. Shedemands justice for the loss.

"As I fled my house was also burnt down. I did not expect it," sheadded.

On 14 April in Buthidaung, the residents reported that radical Muslims set 50Rakhine houses on fire. Even the office cum residence of former Pyithu Hluttawrepresentative U Aung Thaung Shwe was not spared.

On 15 April, the Doctors Without Borders (MedicinesSans Frontiers) issued a statement revealing that over 200 houses were burneddown  in Buthidaung locality. Even the office and medical storage of  MSF wastargeted.

On 11 April, bodies of two 30-year-old youths (whowere murdered in Buthidaung) were recovered. The residents claimed that thejunta soldiers and radical Muslims were involved in religious and ethnicclashes in the locality.

The local residents informed that only those  houses belonging to Muslimsand Buthidaung Myoma market areas were not destroyed, but hundreds of Rakhinehouses have already been burnt down.