Tear Gas Situation/ Blood in the Sand

This song is about Major Alfredo Reinado, who led an armed rebellion in East Timor (Timor Leste) from 2006-8. In the resulting chaos, euphemistically referred to as the "situation", thousands of people were displaced and their homes destroyed. Reinado died on 11 February 2008 in a gun battle at the President's house, in which the President, Dr Jose Ramos-Horta, was seriously wounded. The remaining rebels surrendered soon after Reinado's death.