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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering not less than 11 bodies through 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 legal guidelines.

Regulation enforcement had already been made conscious of the group after allegations have been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their method onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely in a position to provide death certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to ascertain the causes of loss of life of the our bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, however before the arrest lots of his followers tried to cease police from arresting the aged man during the raid. 

The unusual group was known within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, 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 devour dirt to be able to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like groups are usually not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they had been promised spiritual observe only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself system in an try to reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More extensively recognized 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 towards 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 shows a lady, 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 woman remarked. “Solely these with a tainted thoughts could odor 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 cases, somewhat 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 education system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they did not reply by the time of publishing.

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