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08-11-2016, 04:31 AM
PH**M PENH: Survivors of the Khmer Rouge hit out at Pokemon Go players on Wednesday after they flocked to one of the regime’s **torious prisons -- **w a museum to Cambodia’s brutal ge**cide -- to catch digital monsters.
The mobile app was made available in Cambodia on Saturday alongside a host of other Southeast Asian nations, with fans flocking to well k**wn landmarks in recent days.
But the game -- which encourages users to hit the pavements in search of the virtual creatures -- has sparked anger after players appeared at Tuol Sleng prison, where up to 15,000 people were sent to their deaths during the Khmer Rouge’s 1975-79 rule.
"It is an insulting act to the souls of the victims who died there," Bou Meng, 76, one of a handful survivors from Tuol Sleng, told AFP.
"It is a place of suffering. It is **t appropriate to play the game there," he said, calling for the museum to be excluded from the game’s maps.
Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which researches the Khmer Rouge atrocities, echoed Bou Meng’s call.
The museum is "**t a shopping mall **r a playground to catch Pokemon. It is a grave site," he said.
Chhay Visoth, the director of the Tuol Sleng Ge**cide Museum, confirmed some visitors had played Pokemon Go inside the prison.
He added that the museum had stepped up measures to stop people playing the game there because the site was "a sad place" of reflection.
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The mobile app was made available in Cambodia on Saturday alongside a host of other Southeast Asian nations, with fans flocking to well k**wn landmarks in recent days.
But the game -- which encourages users to hit the pavements in search of the virtual creatures -- has sparked anger after players appeared at Tuol Sleng prison, where up to 15,000 people were sent to their deaths during the Khmer Rouge’s 1975-79 rule.
"It is an insulting act to the souls of the victims who died there," Bou Meng, 76, one of a handful survivors from Tuol Sleng, told AFP.
"It is a place of suffering. It is **t appropriate to play the game there," he said, calling for the museum to be excluded from the game’s maps.
Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which researches the Khmer Rouge atrocities, echoed Bou Meng’s call.
The museum is "**t a shopping mall **r a playground to catch Pokemon. It is a grave site," he said.
Chhay Visoth, the director of the Tuol Sleng Ge**cide Museum, confirmed some visitors had played Pokemon Go inside the prison.
He added that the museum had stepped up measures to stop people playing the game there because the site was "a sad place" of reflection.
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