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Sumatra Railway
The Sumatra Railway, also referred to as the Pekanbaru Railway, was a railroad project of the Imperial Japanese in Sumatra during the Second World War. It was designed to connect Pekanbaru to Muaro in an effort to strengthen the military and logistical infrastructure for coal and troop shipments. The Japanese directed construction of the 220 km long railway to connect Pekanbaru with the coast of Malacca Straits using forced labour and prisoners of war. 6,500 Dutch, mostly Indo-Europeans, and British prisoners of war and over 100,000 Indonesian, mostly Javanese, forced workers called ''Romusha'' were put to work by the Japanese army. By the time the work was completed in August 1945 almost a third of the European POWs and over half of the Indonesian coolies had died.
The railway was intended to move coal and troops across from "Pakenbaroe" to meet up with an existing railway at Muaoro in the west of the island. The railway was completed on VJ Day, 15 August 1945. It was only ever used to transport POWs out of the area and then quickly became overgrown by the jungle.〔
==Accounts of construction==
George Duffy, one of the 15 Americans there and survivor of the sinking of the recounted life and death for the POW workers on MemoryArchive: malaria, dysentery, pellagra, and malnutrition/"beri-beri" were the principal maladies compounded by overwork and mistreatment. "The average age at death of the 700 () who perished on that railway was 37 years and 3 months."
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