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

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

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

Nevertheless, the group was only in a position to 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 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 throughout the raid. 

The unusual group was recognized within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually anything for the man. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat grime with the intention to heal bodily sicknesses.

Cult-like groups will not be unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female students say they had been promised spiritual apply solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade machine in an try to reincarnate as a better 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 name a cult.

The incident has rapidly 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 tv shows a woman, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

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

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual cases, rather than native authorities. 

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

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

Several tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless searching the group’s compound for different suspicious material. This is an ongoing story and we could have extra particulars within the coming days.