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

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

Legislation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations have been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their means onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

However, the group was solely able to provide death certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to establish the causes of death of the our bodies.

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

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

Cult-like groups usually are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they were promised spiritual apply solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last year, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself device in an attempt to reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra broadly recognized 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) noticed over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from television reveals a girl, who seems 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 girl remarked. “Only those with a tainted mind may scent it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious instances, rather 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 happened as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they did not respond by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still searching the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. This is an ongoing story and we may have extra particulars in the coming days.