Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless bodies found during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the very least 11 bodies through the search. Local authorities have been in a position 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 aware of the group after allegations had been shared that the group had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their method onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

However, the group was only in a position to present dying 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, but before the arrest lots of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the aged man throughout the raid. 

The unusual group was identified in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually anything for the man. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour dust to be able to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like groups usually are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine students say they have been promised spiritual practice only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a selfmade machine in an try and reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has rapidly gone viral on social media, with netizens sharing their disgust in opposition to 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 while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the woman remarked. “Only those with a tainted thoughts could smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular cases, moderately than local authorities. 

“It was imagined 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

Several tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they did not reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking out the group’s compound for different suspicious material. This is an ongoing story and we may have extra details in the coming days.