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 the 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 laws and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

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

Nonetheless, the group was only capable of provide death certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to establish the causes of death of the bodies.

The suspected chief 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 during the raid. 

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

Cult-like teams will not be unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female students say they had been promised religious follow solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade system in an attempt to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name 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 woman, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any disagreeable odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the lady remarked. “Solely those with a tainted thoughts may smell it.”

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

One twitter consumer identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular 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

Several 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 greater than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

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