Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead our bodies found throughout raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering no less than 11 bodies in the course of the search. Native 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 aware of the group after allegations were shared that the group had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their way onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was solely capable of present loss of life certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to ascertain the causes of loss of life of the bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest many of his followers tried to stop police from arresting the elderly man through the raid. 

The strange group was identified within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the man. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dirt to be able to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like groups are usually not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female college students say they had been promised non secular apply solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a selfmade system in an try and reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has shortly 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 television shows a lady, 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 woman remarked. “Only these with a tainted thoughts may smell it.”

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

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 instances, quite than local authorities. 

“It was speculated to be the police that raided this cult within the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter user questioned.

ที่งงคือทำไมถึงต้องเป็นหมอปลาที่เป็นคนประสานหรือนำสังคมไปเจอเรื่องอะไรแบบนี้ ทั้งที่คนที่ควรจะเป็นบุกไปจับ ไปเจอ หรือเปิดเผยมันควรเป็น ตร. หรือ จนท. ของรัฐ ไม่ใช่หรอ ทำไมถึงปล่อยให้มีเรื่องขนาดนี้เกิดขึ้น สุดจริงบ้านนี้เมืองนี้ #พระบิดา

A number of tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they did not reply by the time of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless searching the group’s compound for other suspicious material. This is an ongoing story and we can have extra details in the coming days.