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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the very least 11 our bodies in the course of the search. Native authorities have been able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

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

Nevertheless, the group was solely able to provide death certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to determine the causes of dying of the bodies.

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

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

Cult-like teams should not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine college students say they have been promised non secular observe solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final year, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a home made device in an try to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra broadly known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has shortly 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) noticed over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv shows a lady, who seems 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 thoughts might smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual cases, somewhat than native authorities. 

“It was presupposed 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 education system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't reply by the time of publishing.

Authorities are still searching the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. This is an ongoing story and we can have extra particulars in the coming days.