\n Survivors of the Khmer Rouge hit out at Pokemon Go players on Wednesday after they flocked to one of the regime's notorious prisons -- now a museum to Cambodia's brutal genocide -- to catch digital monsters.\n<\/p>\n
\n The mobile app was made available in Cambodia on Saturday alongside a host of other Southeast Asian nations, with fans flocking to well known landmarks in recent days.\n<\/p>\n
\n 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.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"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.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"It is a place of suffering. It is not appropriate to play the game there,\" he said, calling for the museum to be excluded from the game's maps.\n<\/p>\n
\n Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which researches the Khmer Rouge atrocities, echoed Bou Meng's call.\n<\/p>\n
\n The museum is \"not a shopping mall nor a playground to catch Pokemon. It is a grave site,\" he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Chhay Visoth, the director of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, confirmed some visitors had played Pokemon Go inside the prison.\n<\/p>\n
\n 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.\n<\/p>\n
\n Security guards there said they had chased players away from inside the museum. But on Wednesday afternoon players were still searching for Pokemon outside the prison.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"I found four Pokemon monsters, but I don't need to go inside Tuol Sleng,\" a player, who asked not to be named, told AFP while playing next to the museum wall.\n<\/p>\n
\n Since its global launch, Pokemon Go has sparked a worldwide frenzy among users who have taken to the streets with their smartphones.\n<\/p>\n
\n The viral game uses satellite locations, graphics and camera capabilities to overlay cartoon monsters on real-world settings, challenging players to capture and train the creatures for battles.\n<\/p>\n
\n While it has been praised as a fun way to get people outdoors, it has also attracted safety and security warnings.\n<\/p>\n
\n It is not the first time players have turned up at sensitive historical sites.\n<\/p>\n
\n A French World War I memorial has been removed from Pokemon Go following complaints about gamers gathering to do battle at a site containing the remains of 130,000 soldiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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