{"id":55497,"date":"2023-05-27T13:54:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T04:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/27\/west-papua-rebels-threaten-to-shoot-new-zealand-pilot-if-independence-talks-denied"},"modified":"2023-05-27T13:54:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T04:54:18","slug":"west-papua-rebels-threaten-to-shoot-new-zealand-pilot-if-independence-talks-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55497","title":{"rendered":"West Papua rebels threaten to shoot New Zealand pilot if independence talks denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Mehrtens, who has been held hostage since February, makes the claim in a new video released by the separatist group<\/p>\n<p>Rebels in Indonesia\u2019s Papua region have threatened to shoot a New Zealand pilot being held hostage if countries do not comply with their demand to start independence talks within two months, a new video released by the group shows.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrilla fighters in Papua\u2019s central highlands, who want to free Papua from Indonesia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/separatists-fighters-in-papua-hold-new-zealand-pilot-hostage\">kidnapped Phillip Mehrtens<\/a> after he landed a commercial plane in the mountainous area of Nduga in February.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/27\/west-papua-rebels-threaten-to-shoot-new-zealand-pilot-if-independence-talks-denied\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Mehrtens, who has been held hostage since February, makes the claim in a new video released by the separatist groupRebels in Indonesia\u2019s Papua region have threatened to shoot a New Zealand pilot being held hostage if countries do not comply wit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,56,933,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-west-papua"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55498,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55497\/revisions\/55498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}