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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the very least 11 our bodies in the course of the search. Local authorities had been able 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 conscious of the group after allegations had been shared that the group had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their means onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

However, the group was solely in a position to provide demise certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to ascertain the causes of dying of the bodies.

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

The strange group was recognized within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost something for the man. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat grime in order to heal bodily diseases.

Cult-like teams usually are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine students say they were promised non secular follow solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last year, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself machine in an try and reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has rapidly gone viral on social media, with netizens sharing their disgust in opposition to 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 shows a girl, who seems 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 lady remarked. “Only these with a tainted mind could scent it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious circumstances, fairly than local authorities. 

“It was supposed to be the police that raided this cult in the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter user questioned.

ที่งงคือทำไมถึงต้องเป็นหมอปลาที่เป็นคนประสานหรือนำสังคมไปเจอเรื่องอะไรแบบนี้ ทั้งที่คนที่ควรจะเป็นบุกไปจับ ไปเจอ หรือเปิดเผยมันควรเป็น ตร. หรือ จนท. ของรัฐ ไม่ใช่หรอ ทำไมถึงปล่อยให้มีเรื่องขนาดนี้เกิดขึ้น สุดจริงบ้านนี้เมืองนี้ #พระบิดา

Several 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 consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they didn't reply by the time of publishing.

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