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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at least 11 our bodies in the course of 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 laws.

Regulation 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 method onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely capable of provide dying certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to determine the causes of death of the our bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, however before 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, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually anything for the man. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume filth with the intention to heal bodily diseases.

Cult-like groups are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they had been promised non secular practice only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final year, an elderly 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. More broadly recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has quickly 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) noticed 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 whereas consuming the human waste.  

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

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious circumstances, fairly 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

Several tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to reach local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they didn't respond by the point of publishing.

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