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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering a minimum of 11 bodies in the course of the search. Local authorities were capable of raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

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

Nevertheless, the group was only capable of present demise certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to establish the causes of death of the our bodies.

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

The unusual group was identified in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost something for the man. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour dust in an effort to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like groups should not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female college students say they were promised religious follow solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself gadget in an try to reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly known 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 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 did not detect any unpleasant odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the woman remarked. “Only these with a tainted thoughts may 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 religious circumstances, slightly than local authorities. 

“It was alleged 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 schooling system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still looking out the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we will have extra particulars within the coming days.