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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at least 11 bodies through the search. Native authorities have been able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

Regulation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations had been shared that the group had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their way onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was solely able to provide dying 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 our bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, however earlier than the arrest many of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the elderly man through 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 man. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dirt with a purpose to heal physical sicknesses.

Cult-like groups are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female college students say they have been promised non secular follow solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last 12 months, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a homemade machine in an try to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly recognized 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) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv shows 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 lady remarked. “Only those with a tainted mind might scent it.”

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

One twitter user identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual instances, relatively than local authorities. 

“It was speculated to be the police that raided this cult in 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 greater than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

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