Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 lifeless our bodies found during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the very least 11 bodies in the course of the search. Local authorities had been able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

Law enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations were shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their manner onto the camp grounds, police then found the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was only in a position to provide demise certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to ascertain the causes of dying of the bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but before the arrest many of his followers tried to cease police from arresting the elderly man in the course of the raid. 

The strange group was identified within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually something for the person. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume grime as a way to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like groups will not be uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female college students say they have been promised religious apply only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last 12 months, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a selfmade device in an attempt to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More extensively known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has quickly 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 television reveals a girl, who appears 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 girl remarked. “Only these with a tainted mind may scent it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious cases, reasonably than local authorities. 

“It was imagined 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 happened as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to reach local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they didn't reply by the time of publishing.

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