Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless our bodies discovered during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering a minimum of 11 our bodies throughout the search. Local authorities were 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 conscious of the group after allegations were shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their means onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely capable of provide death 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, but earlier than the arrest a lot of his followers tried to cease police from arresting the elderly man through the raid. 

The strange group was recognized within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually something for the person. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dirt in an effort to heal bodily diseases.

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. Final yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself gadget in an try to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More widely recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

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

A snippet from television exhibits a lady, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any unpleasant odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the girl remarked. “Only those with a tainted mind might smell it.”

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

One twitter person pointed out that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious cases, rather than native authorities. 

“It was supposed 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 happened as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they didn't respond by the time of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking the group’s compound for other suspicious materials. This is an ongoing story and we may have more particulars in the coming days.