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

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

Legislation 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 manner onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was only able to provide death certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to establish the causes of demise of the our bodies.

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

The strange 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 anything for the person. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour dirt with a view to heal physical sicknesses.

Cult-like teams are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female students say they were promised religious follow solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a home made device in an try and reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively identified 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 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 television shows a woman, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any unpleasant odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the woman remarked. “Solely those with a tainted mind might smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular instances, moderately than native authorities. 

“It was speculated 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 occurred as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they did not respond by the time of publishing.

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