Profile. Born in Huancapi (Ayacucho), from where she fled with her family due to the armed conflict, Aida Aroni Chillcce was arrested for demanding the resignation of Dina Boluarte dressed in the dress of her town.
He carried no stones, no slings, no sticks. Dressed in the traditional clothing of her town, Huancapi, in Ayacucho, she only waved a Peruvian flag. Aida Aroni Chillcce he was not a public threat. But, on the afternoon of Saturday, February 4, five policemen detained her, ripped her flag, trampled on her, and forced her onto a bus, for no reason.
Photos and videos from the press and from witnesses prove that Aida Aroni was not involved in any altercation. “She only asked for mercy,” recalled Aida Aroni, interviewed by La República. The police took her to the Cotabambas police station and then to the PNP Social Affairs Division in Rímac. The transfer was humiliating, unnecessary, abusive. Aroni, 52, was framed with her hands behind her back. She hadn’t committed any crime.
Detention. For no reason, five police officers detained her and took the flag away. Photo: Luis Javier Maguiña/La República
It was not the first time he had attended a demonstration. She had been coming, peacefully, since December 2022. In January she decided that she would go out with skirts, in his town suit, so that his Andean origin would be noticed.
Aida Aroni Chillce is from Huancapi, from the province of Víctor Fajardo, Ayacucho, a town brutally hit during the internal armed conflict. While she awaits the release of her sister outside the Social Affairs Division, Marcelina Aroni Chillcce recounted that Aida’s indignation stems from her past.
“My father was killed by Fujimori. The military killed him when he was leaving work during a curfew. At that time everyone was called terrorists. We have seen how they killed innocents, raped pregnant women, tortured anyone. That injustice is what my sister does not want to see happen again,” Marcelina Aroni said through tears.
The body of Roberto Aroni, the father of Aida and Marcelina, was thrown into a common grave. “To this day it is impossible to see my grandfather’s grave, because there are a number of people. Where is he? We don’t know, but we left the flowers there,” said Karen Quispe, Aida Aroni’s daughter.
Reason. Aroni does not want those who killed his father to return. Photo: John Reyes/The Republic
The images indicate that Aida Aroni was arrested by several police officers when she was claiming them for launching tear gas that was affecting people.
“I approached the police officers and asked for mercy. That’s when they took my flag and stomped on it. They hit me on the back and pulled all my hair,” she stated. She had never been in a cell before, until she was admitted to the Cotabambas police station.
“They told me if I was the lady in the skirt and why I had dressed up. That outraged me, that they minimize us,” he declared.. “They asked me what I had brought, where my stones were. While they took away my flag, other people behind me verbally assaulted me. Others were mistreated as well. I asked a lady for help because suddenly I can sign anything and they had already told me not to sign anything, ”she added.
She was released after the 48 hours estimated by law. Upon leaving her, Aida Aroni publicly stated that the authorities did not listen to her claims. On the contrary, they justified her detention. “The prosecutors told me: Did they hurt you? But what are you getting in for?” she recalled.
And he said in his mother tongue: “I will speak to you in Quechua, (President) Dina. You have made your countrymen suffer, you have murdered. How much blood are you spilling? Is it for money? What is it that you want? What are you doing with all the ministers, with all those rats that sit in the Congress?”. (Translation by the Quechua-speaking teacher and historian Andrés Chirinos).
Freedom. The prosecutors told Aroni: “What are you getting into?” They found nothing for him. Photo: Gerardo Marín/La República
Despite the experience, Aroni will return to the streets: “I don’t fight with a stick, I don’t fight with stones. I don’t care that they discriminate against me, that they call me chola, mountain, Indian, whatever, I feel proud. I fight for my country, ”she assured.
Data
There is nothing. He Public ministry did not press charges against Aida Aroni Chillcce because no charges were found against her.
The history. Like thousands of Ayacucho residents, Aida Aroni left Huancapi as a teenager due to the expansion of the armed conflict.
