Chairman of the UCPN-Maoist, Dahal, shows the red salute towards solders of the PLA while addressing the hand over ceremony in Chitwan

Chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (UCPN)-Maoist, Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” shows a clenched fist, a gesture called the red salute, to solders of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) while addressing the hand over ceremony of the Maoist camp to the Special Committee for Supervision, Integration and Rehabilitation of Maoist Combatants at Shaktikhor cantonment in Chitwan, some 160 km (99 miles) south of Kathmandu January 22, 2011. Nepal’s Maoist former rebels put thousands of their ex-fighters under government control in a move expected to boost a peace process that ended 10 years of civil war. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL – Tags: POLITICS MILITARY)