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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at least 11 bodies through 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.

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

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

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

The unusual group was recognized within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually something for the person. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour dirt in an effort to heal bodily diseases.

Cult-like teams are usually not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female college students say they have been promised non secular observe only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade device in an try to reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More widely recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has rapidly gone viral on social media, with netizens sharing their disgust in opposition to 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 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 girl remarked. “Only these with a tainted mind could odor it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular cases, quite than local authorities. 

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

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

Several tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not respond by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still searching the group’s compound for other suspicious material. That is an ongoing story and we could have more details within the coming days.