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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering no less than 11 our bodies throughout the search. Native authorities have been in a position to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

Regulation 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 way onto the camp grounds, police then found the remains of 11 bodies in coffins.

However, the group was only capable of provide 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 dying of the bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest a lot of his followers tried to cease police from arresting the aged man throughout the raid. 

The unusual group was recognized within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost something for the person. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat filth in order to heal physical sicknesses.

Cult-like teams usually are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female students say they have been promised spiritual apply solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last year, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself gadget in an try to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely known 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) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv exhibits a girl, 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 girl remarked. “Only those with a tainted mind might scent it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person pointed out that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious cases, rather than native authorities. 

“It was alleged to be the police that raided this cult in the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter person 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 in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of 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 reply by the point of publishing.

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