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

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

Nonetheless, the group was solely in a position to present dying certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to ascertain the causes of loss of life of the bodies.

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

The unusual group was known 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 drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dust to be able to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like groups usually are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine students say they have been promised spiritual observe solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a selfmade machine in an try and 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 wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call 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 television exhibits a lady, 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 lady remarked. “Only those with a tainted mind could scent it.”

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

“It was supposed to be the police that raided this cult within 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 happened as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they did not respond by the time of publishing.

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