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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering a minimum of 11 our bodies in the course of the search. Local authorities have been able to 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 conscious of the group after allegations have been shared that the neighborhood had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their method onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

However, the group was solely capable of 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 dying of the our bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, but before the arrest lots of his followers tried 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 method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually anything for the person. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour dust with the intention to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like teams are usually not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine college students say they had been promised spiritual practice only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade machine in an try and reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has rapidly 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) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from television reveals a woman, 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 woman remarked. “Solely those with a tainted thoughts might scent it.”

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

“It was speculated to be the police that raided this cult in 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 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 nation being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

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