Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead bodies discovered during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering no less than 11 bodies throughout the search. Local authorities were able 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 conscious of the group after allegations were shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their method onto the camp grounds, police then found the remains of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was only in a position to provide loss of life certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to ascertain the causes of loss of life of the our bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, however before the arrest many of his followers attempted to cease police from arresting the aged man in the course of the raid. 

The unusual group was identified within the area 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 drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dust with a purpose to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like groups aren't unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female students say they were promised spiritual apply solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a homemade gadget in an try to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely recognized 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 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 television exhibits 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 lady remarked. “Solely those with a tainted thoughts could smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer pointed out that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular cases, fairly than local authorities. 

“It was presupposed to be the police that raided this cult within 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 occurred as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they did not respond by the time of publishing.

Authorities are still looking out the group’s compound for other suspicious materials. This is an ongoing story and we can have more details within the coming days.