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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at least 11 our bodies throughout the search. Native authorities had been in a position to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

Legislation enforcement had already been made aware 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 our bodies in coffins.

However, the group was only able to provide dying certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to ascertain the causes of dying of the our bodies.

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

The strange group was recognized in the space 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 in an effort to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like teams should not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine college students say they have been promised spiritual apply solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last 12 months, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a selfmade machine in an attempt to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More extensively known 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 towards 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 shows a lady, 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. “Solely these with a tainted thoughts may smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious instances, slightly than local authorities. 

“It was presupposed to be the police that raided this cult in the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter user 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 training system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not respond by the time of publishing.

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