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The controversial 'wall of shame', which is a 3-meter high, 10-kilometer long partition composed of stones with wires and barbed wire, separated the rich neighborhood (the Municipality of La Molina) from the poor area (Villa Maria del Triunfo) in the province of Lima in Peru, began to be partially demolished this week after several years of legal battles. teleSUR
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00:00 In Peru, the demolition of a wall that divides the wealthy neighborhood of La Molina from
00:04 the poor district of Villa Maria del Triunfo moves forward after a ruling from the Constitutional
00:10 Court.
00:11 Workers tore down the one and a half meter high Pirca, or wall, in Lima after the Peruvian
00:17 court ruled that the structure was discriminatory.
00:20 The barrier was built in 1980 and has been extended at different times up to the present
00:25 day.
00:26 However, the Constitutional Court's ruling affirmed that the wall affects the right to
00:30 free transit and harms human dignity.
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