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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering a minimum of 11 bodies throughout the search. Local authorities have been capable of raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

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

Nonetheless, the group was only capable of provide demise certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to ascertain the causes of death of the bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, however before the arrest a lot of his followers attempted to cease police from arresting the elderly man through the raid. 

The unusual group was known in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, 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 consume grime with a purpose to heal bodily diseases.

Cult-like teams usually are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine college students say they were promised religious observe only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself device in an attempt to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra broadly 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 against 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 reveals a woman, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any disagreeable odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the lady remarked. “Only those with a tainted mind might scent it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
กูหลุดขำกับคำพูดนี้มาก ยายแกคิดได้ไง5555555555555555#พระบิดา pic.twitter.com/rNOaZJBLxq

One twitter consumer identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious cases, fairly than native authorities. 

“It was alleged 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 happened as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they did not respond by the time of publishing.

Authorities are still looking the group’s compound for different suspicious material. That is an ongoing story and we could have extra details in the coming days.