Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 lifeless our bodies found throughout raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering not less than 11 our bodies throughout the search. Local authorities were in a position to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

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

Nonetheless, the group was only able to present dying certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to ascertain the causes of loss of life of the our bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, however earlier than the arrest many of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the aged 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 almost something for the person. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dirt to be able to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like groups should not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they were promised non secular practice only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last 12 months, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself system in an try to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call 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) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from television reveals 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 these with a tainted thoughts could scent it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user pointed out that the one who exposed 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 in the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter consumer questioned.

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

Several tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not respond by the time of publishing.

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