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 not less than 11 bodies throughout the search. Local authorities were capable of raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

Regulation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations had 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.

Nevertheless, the group was solely able to present demise certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to determine the causes of demise of the bodies.

The suspected leader 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 unusual group was identified in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the person. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dust so as to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like teams are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they have been promised spiritual apply solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a selfmade system in an attempt to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More widely recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has rapidly gone viral on social media, with netizens sharing their disgust against 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 woman, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any disagreeable odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

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

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user pointed out that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious instances, quite than local authorities. 

“It was presupposed 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 happened as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't respond by the time of publishing.

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