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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering no less than 11 bodies during the search. Local authorities had been able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

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

Nonetheless, the group was solely in a position to provide death certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to determine the causes of death of the 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 strange group was identified in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually something for the man. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dirt with a view to heal physical sicknesses.

Cult-like teams should not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female students say they were promised non secular observe only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade device in an try and reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More widely identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy 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) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from television shows a lady, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the lady remarked. “Solely these with a tainted mind could scent it.”

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

One twitter user identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular cases, moderately than native authorities. 

“It was purported 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 schooling system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they did not respond by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still looking the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. This is an ongoing story and we will have more particulars in the coming days.