Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead our bodies found during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at least 11 bodies during the search. Native authorities have been in a position to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

Regulation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations had been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their means onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

However, the group was only able to provide death certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to determine the causes of demise of the bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, however before the arrest many of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the aged man throughout the raid. 

The unusual group was identified within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the person. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume grime with the intention to heal bodily diseases.

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

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

A snippet from television exhibits a lady, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

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

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
กูหลุดขำกับคำพูดนี้มาก ยายแกคิดได้ไง5555555555555555#พระบิดา pic.twitter.com/rNOaZJBLxq

One twitter user identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious instances, fairly 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 training system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not reply by the time of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking the group’s compound for other suspicious material. This is an ongoing story and we may have extra particulars within the coming days.