Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless bodies found throughout raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering not less than 11 our bodies throughout the search. Local authorities were able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

Law enforcement had already been made conscious of the group after allegations have been shared that the group had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their means onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was only able to provide death certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to ascertain the causes of death of the bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but before the arrest lots of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the elderly man throughout the raid. 

The unusual group was known within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually something for the man. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dirt with a purpose to heal bodily diseases.

Cult-like teams should not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female college students say they have been promised religious observe solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself machine in an try and reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has rapidly gone viral on social media, with netizens sharing their disgust against the cult’s practices of consuming human waste. The Thai-language hashtag #พระบิดา (#Father) noticed over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv shows a girl, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any disagreeable odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the lady remarked. “Solely these with a tainted mind might smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious instances, rather than local authorities. 

“It was speculated to be the police that raided this cult within the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter user questioned.

ที่งงคือทำไมถึงต้องเป็นหมอปลาที่เป็นคนประสานหรือนำสังคมไปเจอเรื่องอะไรแบบนี้ ทั้งที่คนที่ควรจะเป็นบุกไปจับ ไปเจอ หรือเปิดเผยมันควรเป็น ตร. หรือ จนท. ของรัฐ ไม่ใช่หรอ ทำไมถึงปล่อยให้มีเรื่องขนาดนี้เกิดขึ้น สุดจริงบ้านนี้เมืองนี้ #พระบิดา

A number of tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they did not reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking out the group’s compound for other suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we may have extra particulars in the coming days.