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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the least 11 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 legal guidelines.

Law enforcement had already been made conscious of the group after allegations had been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their means onto the camp grounds, police then found the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

However, the group was solely capable of present demise certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to ascertain 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 tried to cease police from arresting the elderly man during the raid. 

The unusual 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 virtually something for the man. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dust with a view to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like teams usually are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female college students say they had been promised religious practice only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a homemade gadget in an try and reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More extensively identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has shortly 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 television exhibits a woman, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any unpleasant odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

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

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One twitter person identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual cases, slightly than local authorities. 

“It was purported 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 schooling system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not reply by the time of publishing.

Authorities are still looking out the group’s compound for other suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we can have more particulars within the coming days.