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

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

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

However, the group was solely in a position to present demise certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to ascertain the causes of loss of life of the our bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest lots of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the elderly man through the raid. 

The unusual group was recognized within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly something for the man. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dust with a purpose to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like teams are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they have been promised religious observe only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade system in an try to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More widely recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy 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) noticed over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv shows a girl, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the lady remarked. “Solely these with a tainted thoughts might smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
กูหลุดขำกับคำพูดนี้มาก ยายแกคิดได้ไง5555555555555555#พระบิดา pic.twitter.com/rNOaZJBLxq

One twitter person pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious circumstances, reasonably than local authorities. 

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

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

A number of tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they didn't respond by the time of publishing.

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