REFILE - REPLACING SECOND SENTENCE Former Maoist rebels (R) take part in a parade after being integrated as lieutenants into the national army as part of the peace deal at Nepal Military Academy in Kharipati in Bhaktapur August 26, 2013. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
KHARIPATI, Nepal (Reuters) - Nepal commissioned a group of former Maoist rebel fighters as officers in the national army on Monday, fulfilling a main component of a fragile peace deal that ended civil war but has failed to bring political stability to the Himalayan nation.
Some 70 Maoist fighters who battled the army in the decade-long conflict that ended in 2006 joined their former foes in a parade at the Nepalese Military Academy at Kharipati, 20 km (12 miles) east of Kathmandu.
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