Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead our bodies found during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the least 11 our 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.

Law 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 chief. After police made their manner onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was only in a position to provide demise certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to ascertain the causes of dying of the bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, however earlier than the arrest lots of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the aged man during the raid. 

The strange group was identified within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the person. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour filth in an effort to heal bodily sicknesses.

Cult-like teams are usually 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 intercourse or raped by its founder. Last 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a home made gadget in an try to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

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

A snippet from tv shows a lady, 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 woman remarked. “Solely these with a tainted mind may odor it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular instances, rather 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 happened as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they did not respond by the time of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking out the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we will have extra particulars in the coming days.