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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the least 11 our bodies in the course of the search. Local authorities were able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

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 leader. After police made their approach onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely able to present dying certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to determine the causes of demise of the our bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, however earlier than the arrest a lot of his followers attempted to cease police from arresting the elderly man throughout the raid. 

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

Cult-like teams will not be unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine students say they were promised spiritual follow solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself gadget in an try and reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More extensively identified 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) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from television shows a woman, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any unpleasant odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

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

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

One twitter person identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious circumstances, moderately than native authorities. 

“It was purported 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

A number of tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they didn't respond by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still searching the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we can have extra details in the coming days.