Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead bodies discovered during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering not less than 11 bodies throughout the search. Local 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.

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

Nevertheless, the group was only in a position to present loss of life certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to determine the causes of death of the our bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, however earlier than the arrest a lot of his followers tried to cease police from arresting the aged man during the raid. 

The strange group was identified within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually anything for the person. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dirt as a way to heal bodily sicknesses.

Cult-like groups are usually not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine students say they were promised non secular follow only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last year, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a homemade gadget in an try to reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely recognized 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 against 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 shows a woman, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any unpleasant odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

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

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular instances, rather than native 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

Several tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless searching the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we could have more particulars within the coming days.