BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
04/08/2007
Italian motorcyclists set off on journey to Hiroshima via Belarus
VENICE - Three Italian motorcyclists left Venice on Friday on a 20,000-kilometer trans-Eurasian journey to Hiroshima via Belarus to campaign against radiation tragedies. The Marco Polo Team, led by lawyer Michele Orlando, 42, plans to arrive in Hiroshima on Sept 20 to deliver paper cranes made by Italian children to a monument dedicated to a Japanese girl who died at age 12 as a result of the wartime atomic bombing of the city on Aug 6, 1945.
The three riders plan to lay over in Belarus, which suffered major damage in the April 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, to make a donation to help build an orphanage. "Hiroshima is a symbol of the tragedy of the 20th century," Orlando told reporters as the team set off. "We would like to run as peace messengers."
Source:
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/414230
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