Chief 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 the least 11 bodies throughout the search. Local authorities were 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 had been 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 remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was only capable of provide death certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to ascertain the causes of demise of the bodies.

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

The unusual group was recognized in the space 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 devour dirt in order to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like teams will not be uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female college students say they had been promised religious follow only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last year, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a homemade system in an try to reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call 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 tv exhibits a lady, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any unpleasant odor while consuming the human waste.  

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

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

One twitter user identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual cases, relatively than local authorities. 

“It was purported 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

A number of tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they did not respond by the time of publishing.

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