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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering no less than 11 our bodies throughout the search. Local authorities have been 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 conscious of the group after allegations had 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 solely in a position to present death certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to ascertain the causes of loss of life of the bodies.

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

The strange group was known within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the man. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dust as a way to heal physical sicknesses.

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

The incident has quickly 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 tv shows a girl, 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 lady remarked. “Only those with a tainted thoughts could scent it.”

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

One twitter consumer identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual circumstances, slightly than native authorities. 

“It was purported to be the police that raided this cult within 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 occurred as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they didn't respond by the time of publishing.

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