{"id":58714,"date":"2023-09-26T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/26\/indonesian-military-accused-of-targeting-children-west-papua"},"modified":"2023-09-26T00:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:00:32","slug":"the-kids-had-all-been-tortured-indonesian-military-accused-of-targeting-children-in-west-papua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58714","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The kids had all been tortured\u2019: Indonesian military accused of targeting children in West Papua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Australia is seeking to strengthen ties with Indonesia, despite new reports of brutality by the military \u2014 including the torture and murder of civilians \u2014 in West Papua<\/p>\n<p>The body of 17-year-old Wity Unue was brought back by the Indonesian military in a box, witnesses say. When soldiers couldn\u2019t find his family, they burned the cardboard coffin, with his body inside, in a clearing at the end of a road<strong> <\/strong>in the remote highlands of West Papua.<\/p>\n<p>The high school student, a promising musician and songwriter, had been tortured and burned to death.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/26\/indonesian-military-accused-of-targeting-children-west-papua\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Australia is seeking to strengthen ties with Indonesia, despite new reports of brutality by the military \u2014 including the torture and murder of civilians \u2014 in West PapuaThe body of 17-year-old Wity Unue was brought back by the Indonesian mili&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2350,"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":[41,43,156,434,267,1767,2927,1718,664,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-indonesia","category-joko-widodo","category-papua-new-guinea","category-penny-wong","category-richard-marles","category-the-pacific","category-timor-leste","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58714","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\/2350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58721,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58714\/revisions\/58721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}