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 not less than 11 bodies during the search. Native authorities had been in a position to 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 community 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.

However, the group was only in a position to present loss of life certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to determine the causes of loss of life of the bodies.

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

The unusual group was recognized in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the person. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour grime so as to heal physical sicknesses.

Cult-like teams will not be uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female students say they have been promised non secular practice solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a home made gadget in an attempt to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name 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) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv shows a girl, who seems 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 woman remarked. “Solely these with a tainted thoughts could odor it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual circumstances, rather than local authorities. 

“It was presupposed to be the police that raided this cult within the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter consumer 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 more than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to reach local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they did not respond by the time of publishing.

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