Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless our bodies discovered during raid

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

Law 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 discovered the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely capable of present loss of life certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to establish the causes of loss of life of the bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, but before the arrest a lot of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the aged man through the raid. 

The strange group was known within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost something for the man. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour filth with a purpose to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like groups aren't uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine college students say they were promised religious follow solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself machine in an try and reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra broadly recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name 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 woman, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any disagreeable odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

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

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular circumstances, fairly than native authorities. 

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

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

Several tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to reach local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they did not reply by the point of publishing.

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