{"id":68837,"date":"2025-01-10T09:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T00:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/10\/no-one-will-stop-our-people-bougainville-president-defiant-in-push-for-independence"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T00:01:25","slug":"no-one-will-stop-our-people-bougainville-president-defiant-in-push-for-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68837","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No one will stop our people\u2019: Bougainville president defiant in push for independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ishmael Toroama tells the Guardian sovereignty from Papua New Guinea is a \u2018matter of time\u2019 as long-running process enters next phase <\/p>\n<p>Ishmael Toroama\u2019s life has been dominated by a single ambition. The president of Bougainville, an autonomous island that is part of the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea, has for decades fought for his island to claim its sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBougainville is for independence,\u201d the president insists. \u201cIt is only a matter of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/10\/no-one-will-stop-our-people-bougainville-president-defiant-in-push-for-independence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ishmael Toroama tells the Guardian sovereignty from Papua New Guinea is a \u2018matter of time\u2019 as long-running process enters next phase Ishmael Toroama\u2019s life has been dominated by a single ambition. The president of Bougainville, an autonomous island tha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[41,945,874,3085,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bougainville","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-leaders-in-their-words","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68837","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68838,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68837\/revisions\/68838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}