Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 lifeless bodies found throughout raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the least 11 bodies during the search. Local authorities had been 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 were shared that the neighborhood had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their manner onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely able to provide demise certificates belonging to 5 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 leader of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest many of his followers tried to stop police from arresting the aged man through the raid. 

The unusual group was identified in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually anything for the man. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dirt so as to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like groups are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they were promised non secular apply only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a home made system in an try to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has quickly 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 girl, who appears 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"
กูหลุดขำกับคำพูดนี้มาก ยายแกคิดได้ไง5555555555555555#พระบิดา pic.twitter.com/rNOaZJBLxq

One twitter person identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual instances, relatively than native authorities. 

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

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

A number of tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't reply by the time of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking out the group’s compound for other suspicious material. That is an ongoing story and we could have more details in the coming days.