Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead our bodies discovered during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering not less than 11 bodies throughout the search. Native authorities were able to 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 community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their approach onto the camp grounds, police then found the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely capable of provide dying certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to establish the causes of dying of the our bodies.

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

The strange group was identified within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually something for the man. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour dust with the intention to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like teams will not be uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they had been promised spiritual follow only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade machine in an attempt to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has shortly 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 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 woman remarked. “Only these with a tainted thoughts could smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular circumstances, quite than native authorities. 

“It was supposed 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

Several tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they did not respond by the point of publishing.

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