Rebels in Indonesia's Papua region threatened to shoot a New Zealand pilot they took hostage in February if countries do not comply with their demand to start independence talks within two months, a new video released by the group on Friday showed.

Rebels in Indonesia’s Papua region have threatened to shoot a New Zealand pilot they took hostage if independence talks do not begin within two months.Philip Mehrtens was kidnapped earlier in February this year after he landed his plane at Paro airport in the remote highlands of the Nduga regency in Papua – a region at the heart of a decades-long war led by separatists against Indonesia.