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Released Generation 88 student activists vow support for Myanmar’s reform process, Suu Kyi

Khin Maung Win / Associated Press ) - Min Ko Naing, a leader of the 88 Generation Students Group, speaks during a press conference at a shopping mall on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. The nearly legendary student leader from Myanmar’s failed 1988 pro-democracy uprising was freed on Jan. 13 as part of a presidential pardon for 651 detainees. E-mail Reprints By Associated Press,  Updated: Saturday, January 21,  2:39 PM YANGON, Myanmar — Prominent student activists recently released from prison in Myanmar said Saturday they will work with political reformers and support pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in upcoming by-elections. Min Ko Naing, a top member of the 88 Generation Students Group, said it would always side with those who strive for “fairness, freedom and equality” and join hands with supporters of President Thein Sein’s reforms. The group’s name refers to a failed democracy uprising in 1988 that resulted in long prison terms for