Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless our bodies found throughout raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the very least 11 our bodies through 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 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 bodies in coffins.

However, the group was only in a position to provide dying certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to ascertain the causes of death of the our bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest many of his followers attempted to cease police from arresting the aged man through the raid. 

The strange group was known within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the person. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume filth in order to heal bodily sicknesses.

Cult-like teams are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female college students say they had been promised religious apply solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade gadget in an try to reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More widely known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call 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) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv exhibits 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. “Only these with a tainted thoughts could odor it.”

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

One twitter person pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual circumstances, reasonably than native authorities. 

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

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

Several tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they did not reply by the point of publishing.

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