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

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

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

Nevertheless, the group was solely in a position to provide dying certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to establish the causes of loss of life of the bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but before the arrest many of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the elderly man in the course of the raid. 

The strange group was recognized within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the man. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour grime with the intention to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like teams aren't unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they were promised spiritual follow only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a home made machine in an try and reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively identified 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 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 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 lady remarked. “Solely these with a tainted thoughts could smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular instances, relatively than native authorities. 

“It was supposed 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 thought of greater than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not reply by the point of publishing.

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