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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering not less than 11 our bodies through 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.

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

Nonetheless, the group was only in a position to present death certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to ascertain the causes of dying of the bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest many of his followers tried to cease police from arresting the elderly man through the raid. 

The strange group was known in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost something for the person. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume grime in an effort to heal physical sicknesses.

Cult-like groups are usually not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female college students say they were promised religious follow only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade device in an attempt to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More extensively recognized 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 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 reveals a girl, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any disagreeable odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the woman remarked. “Only those with a tainted mind could smell it.”

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

“It was presupposed to be the police that raided this cult in 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 in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't respond by the time of publishing.

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