Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead our bodies discovered during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering no less than 11 our bodies throughout the search. Native 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.

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

However, the group was only in a position to present demise certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to ascertain the causes of loss of life of the bodies.

The suspected leader 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 unusual group was identified in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the person. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dirt with a view to heal bodily sicknesses.

Cult-like teams will not be uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine students say they have been promised non secular practice only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last 12 months, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself gadget in an try and reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has rapidly 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 girl, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the lady remarked. “Solely 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 cases, relatively than local authorities. 

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

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

Several tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation 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 looking out the group’s compound for other suspicious materials. This is an ongoing story and we can have more particulars in the coming days.