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 a minimum of 11 bodies throughout the search. Native authorities were in a position to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

Regulation 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 discovered the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely able to provide demise certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to determine the causes of death of the our bodies.

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

The unusual group was known in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost something for the person. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dirt in an effort to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like groups aren't unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they were promised non secular practice solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a home made device in an try to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively known 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 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 reveals 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 girl remarked. “Only these with a tainted thoughts could odor it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious 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 training system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they did not reply by the time of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking the group’s compound for different suspicious material. That is an ongoing story and we may have more particulars within the coming days.