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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the very least 11 our bodies through the search. Native authorities were in a position to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

Legislation enforcement had already been made conscious of the group after allegations had been shared that the neighborhood had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their way onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was solely able to provide loss of life certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to determine the causes of demise of the bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest lots of his followers tried to stop police from arresting the elderly man through the raid. 

The strange group was recognized in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the man. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume filth with the intention to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like teams should not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female college students say they have been promised religious observe solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself gadget in an attempt 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 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 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 television exhibits a girl, who seems 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 girl remarked. “Solely those with a tainted thoughts may scent it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular circumstances, rather 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 education system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they didn't respond by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still looking out the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we may have more details within the coming days.