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

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

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

However, the group was only in a position to present death certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to determine the causes of death of the bodies.

The suspected chief 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 throughout the raid. 

The unusual group was recognized within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost something for the man. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour dirt in order to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like teams are usually not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine students say they had been promised non secular practice only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last year, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a selfmade gadget in an try and reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has shortly 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 reveals a lady, who seems 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 girl remarked. “Only those with a tainted mind may smell it.”

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

One twitter user pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular instances, somewhat than native authorities. 

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

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

Several tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless searching the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. This is an ongoing story and we can have more particulars within the coming days.