The isolation of relatively few collaborators and their punishment for treason was part of an urgent campaign to revive asenseofnationalpride and identity.
The government's attempts to ensure stability by appealing to asenseofnationalpride are likely to prove far more difficult in the Himalayan region because of its ambiguous relationship with China before Communist troops took control in 1950.
They have a strong senseofnationalpride, think children should be taught to obey and that the first duty ofa child is to make his or her parents proud.
Mr Obama's combination of calmness and humility could well help America deal with a country whose nationalpride is dangerously spiked with asenseof inferiority.
But I will leave Washington with a very deep senseofpride in what we have accomplished during these last four years being on the President's national security team.