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	<description>Shane's life and ministry on the Thai/Burma border</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Shane&#8217;s Tweets for 2008-11-19</title>
		<link>http://www.shaneabrahams.com/2008/11/shanes-tweets-for-2008-11-19/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
		
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leading review of the Purpose Driven Life week 2 tonight. #

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		<title>UN human rights experts call for fair retrials for Burmese activists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Five leading UN experts on human rights are demanding that dozens of Burmese recently sentenced to lengthy prison terms be given fair and open retrials.
Tomas Ojea Quintana the Special Rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar; Leandro Despouy, Special Rapporteur for the independence of judges and lawyers; Frank La Rue, Special Rapporteur for freedom of opinion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shane&#8217;s Tweets for 2008-11-18</title>
		<link>http://www.shaneabrahams.com/2008/11/shanes-tweets-for-2008-11-18/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
leading review of the Purpose Driven Life week 2 tonight. #

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		<title>China, Burma in $2.5 billion pipeline deal</title>
		<link>http://www.shaneabrahams.com/2008/11/china-burma-in-25-billion-pipeline-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[China and Burma are to build an oil and gas pipeline connecting the Bay of Bengal and the Chinese city of Kunming. Thee deal is worth US$2.5 billion according to media reports.
Bloomberg is quoting the Nikkei newspaper as saying China National Petroleum Corp will own 50.9 percent of the project, and will manage the pipeline. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clearing the decks</title>
		<link>http://www.shaneabrahams.com/2008/11/clearing-the-decks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By now it should be obvious to everyone that the roadmap to democracy put forward by Burma’s military junta is a sham.
The junta are clearly not interested in returning the country to full democracy. Nor are they interested in relinquishing power and letting the people decide their own future.
The new constitution, which is at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jailed poet forcibly injected with HIV</title>
		<link>http://www.shaneabrahams.com/2008/11/jailed-poet-forcibly-injected-with-hiv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Aung Than, a poet and member of the opposition National League for Democracy was infected with the HIV virus after being forcibly injected while in Insein prison says Reporters Without Borders.
In a statement issued jointly with the Burma Media Association, they cite Aung’s friends and family, including his mother, who says he is in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloggers unite for Nay Phone Latt</title>
		<link>http://www.shaneabrahams.com/2008/11/bloggers-unite-for-nay-phone-latt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
		
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Burmese blogger Nay Phone Latt was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday. His crime, practising the freedom of speech for which the Internet is famous.
He was arrested in January after publishing a cartoon of junta leader Than Shwe, and charged with offences under both the Electronics Act and Video Act, apparently for possession [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Severe sentences handed down to activists</title>
		<link>http://www.shaneabrahams.com/2008/11/severe-sentences-handed-down-to-activists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
		
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Several activists involved in last year’s popular protests against Burma’s ruling military junta were given harsh prison sentences yesterday. Among them were 14 members of the 88 Generation Students group, who were sentenced to 65 years each.
The protests began as small-scale protests against fuel price rises, but quickly snowballed into large scale pro-democracy protests, led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shane&#8217;s Tweets for 2008-11-11</title>
		<link>http://www.shaneabrahams.com/2008/11/shanes-tweets-for-2008-11-11/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shaneabrahams.com/2008/11/shanes-tweets-for-2008-11-11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Reading: The Guardian: Not such a hero after all ( http://tinyurl.com/5blhq3 ) #

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		<title>Bush names senior Asia advisor as special representative for Burma</title>
		<link>http://www.shaneabrahams.com/2008/11/bush-names-senior-asia-advisor-as-special-representative-for-burma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shaneabrahams.com/2008/11/bush-names-senior-asia-advisor-as-special-representative-for-burma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
	
	Michael Green
The White House has announced President George W. Bush will nominate Michael Green as Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Burma,  a position which carries the rank of Ambassador.
The position was created under the Tom Lantos Block Burmese JADE (the Junta’s Anti-Democratic Efforts) Act, which was signed into law by President Bush on [...]]]></description>
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