Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead 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 through the search. Native 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 conscious of the group after allegations have been shared that the group had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their means onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was solely able to present dying certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to establish the causes of loss of life of the our bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, but before the arrest a lot of his followers tried to cease police from arresting the aged man through the raid. 

The strange group was identified in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually something for the man. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour grime to be able to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like teams will not be uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine college students say they have been promised non secular apply only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final year, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a homemade system in an try and reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More extensively known 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 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 television exhibits a girl, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any unpleasant odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

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

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual instances, quite than native 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

A number of tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they didn't reply by the time of publishing.

Authorities are still looking the group’s compound for other suspicious material. That is an ongoing story and we will have more details in the coming days.