Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless bodies found during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering a minimum of 11 our bodies through 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 laws.

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

Nevertheless, the group was only capable of present loss of life 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 earlier than the arrest a lot of his followers tried to cease police from arresting the aged man during the raid. 

The unusual group was known within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually anything for the man. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour dirt to be able to heal bodily sicknesses.

Cult-like teams are usually not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine college students say they were promised non secular practice only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final year, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a home made device in an try to reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has rapidly gone viral on social media, with netizens sharing their disgust in opposition to 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 tv reveals a woman, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any unpleasant odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the woman remarked. “Solely those with a tainted mind could odor 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 star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual circumstances, fairly than native authorities. 

“It was alleged 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 within the area 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 tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't reply by the time of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless searching the group’s compound for other suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we may have more details within the coming days.