Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless bodies found throughout raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the very least 11 our bodies throughout the search. Local authorities had been capable of raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

Law enforcement had already been made conscious of the group after allegations have 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 found the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was only in a position to present loss of life certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to ascertain the causes of demise of the our bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, however before the arrest lots of his followers tried to stop police from arresting the aged man throughout the raid. 

The strange group was known 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 power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume grime with a view to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like teams should not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine college students say they were promised non secular follow solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade machine in an attempt to reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra broadly identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name 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) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv shows a lady, who appears 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 lady remarked. “Only these with a tainted mind may odor it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular circumstances, relatively than native 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 within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they did not reply by the point of publishing.

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