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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering no less than 11 our bodies during the search. Native authorities had been capable of raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

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

Nonetheless, the group was only in a position to provide death certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to determine the causes of dying of the our bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest many of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the aged man during the raid. 

The strange group was recognized within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually something for the man. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dust in an effort to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like teams aren't unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine college students say they were promised spiritual follow solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a home made gadget in an try and reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely identified 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 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 didn't detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the girl remarked. “Solely these with a tainted thoughts may odor it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious circumstances, slightly than native authorities. 

“It was purported 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

A number of tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably in 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 tried to reach local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they didn't respond by the time of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking out the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. This is an ongoing story and we will have extra details in the coming days.