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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at least 11 our bodies in the course of the search. Native authorities had been capable of raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

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

Nonetheless, the group was solely capable of present death 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 many of his followers attempted to cease police from arresting the aged man during the raid. 

The strange group was known in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the person. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dirt so as to heal bodily diseases.

Cult-like groups usually are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine students say they had been promised spiritual practice solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a home made machine in an try and reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More widely recognized 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 television exhibits a girl, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any unpleasant odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the woman remarked. “Only these with a tainted thoughts might smell it.”

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

“It was supposed to be the police that raided this cult in the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter consumer 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 schooling system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't respond by the point of publishing.

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