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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering not less than 11 our bodies in the course of the search. Native authorities have been capable of raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

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

Nevertheless, the group was solely able to provide dying certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to determine the causes of death of the our bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest a lot of his followers tried to stop police from arresting the aged man in the course of the raid. 

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

Cult-like groups are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine college students say they have been promised non secular apply solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a selfmade machine in an try to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has shortly 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) noticed over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from television reveals a woman, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the lady remarked. “Only those with a tainted mind may smell it.”

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

“It was supposed 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 happened as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking out the group’s compound for different suspicious material. That is an ongoing story and we will have extra details within the coming days.