There Kheyang or the Hyow (খিয়াং), are a group of indigenous people inhabiting in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh and the Rakhine State of Myanmar.

According to Kheyang chronicles, the Khyangs[5] with their king entered Chittagong Hill Tracts[citation needed] when their kingdom in Burma was overrun by the Burmese.

However, the literature of the Burmese history tells that the Kheyang migrated with the Marma from the southern Myanmar in the late eighteenth century.

If a person is accused of any criminal wrongdoing, the headman takes steps in line with customary social laws.

[11] The accused is generally punished or forgiven, and the judgement is passed in front of all after measuring the enormity of the misdeed.