"Scores of Rohingya Muslims detained in December by the Myanmar Navy aboard a boat in the Andaman Sea as they attempted to leave the country have been transferred to western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, a coastal forces commander and state immigration minister said Friday. “We sent these 172 Muslims to Sittwe on Jan. 8 by navy vessel No. 617,” Colonel Thant Zin Oo, regional chief of the Coastal Command, told RFA’s Myanmar Service. The 172 Rohingya left a detention center where they were being held on an island and were being taken to Rakhine’s capital Sittwe, though Thant Zin Oo said he does not know where they will be sent once they arrive there or if any further action will be taken against them, The group was accompanied by 42 officials from the military, the police, and the health, immigration, and general administration departments, said Kyaw Min, minister of Rakhine state’s Immigration and Human Resources Ministry..."