Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead bodies discovered throughout 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 were in a position to 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 conscious of the group after allegations were shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their way onto the camp grounds, police then found the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was only in a position to present loss of life certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to establish the causes of demise of the bodies.

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

The strange group was identified in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the person. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour filth with the intention to heal bodily sicknesses.

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

The incident has quickly 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 reveals a woman, 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 those with a tainted thoughts could smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual instances, quite than native authorities. 

“It was imagined 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

A number of tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not respond by the time of publishing.

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