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

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

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

Nevertheless, the group was solely able to provide demise certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to establish the causes of loss of life 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 cease police from arresting the aged man through the raid. 

The unusual group was identified in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the person. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dirt to be able to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like teams aren't uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine college students say they had been promised spiritual observe solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a home made system in an try to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly recognized 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 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 shows a lady, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any unpleasant odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the lady remarked. “Solely these with a tainted mind might odor 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 celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious instances, fairly than local authorities. 

“It was speculated to be the police that raided this cult within 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 education system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they didn't reply by the time of publishing.

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