Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead our bodies discovered throughout 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. Local 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.

Regulation 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 approach onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

However, the group was solely in a position to provide dying certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to determine the causes of death of the our bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, however before the arrest lots of his followers attempted to cease police from arresting the aged man in the course of the raid. 

The unusual group was recognized in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the person. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour grime with a purpose to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like teams are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female college students say they had been promised non secular observe solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a selfmade machine in an try and reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call 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 tv exhibits 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 lady remarked. “Only these with a tainted thoughts might odor it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
กูหลุดขำกับคำพูดนี้มาก ยายแกคิดได้ไง5555555555555555#พระบิดา pic.twitter.com/rNOaZJBLxq

One twitter user pointed out that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual circumstances, slightly than native authorities. 

“It was presupposed 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 happened as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably within 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 tried to achieve local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still searching the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we will have more details in the coming days.