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

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

Legislation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations were shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their approach onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

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

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

The unusual group was recognized in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly something for the person. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour dirt so as to heal physical sicknesses.

Cult-like groups are usually not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine students say they had been promised religious apply solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself device in an attempt to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

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

A snippet from tv shows a girl, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any unpleasant odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the girl remarked. “Only these with a tainted mind might smell it.”

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

One twitter consumer identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular cases, rather than native authorities. 

“It was supposed 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 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 country being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not reply by the point of publishing.

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