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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering not less than 11 our bodies throughout the search. Native authorities have been able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

Legislation 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 remains of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was solely capable of 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 our bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, however before the arrest a lot of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the aged man through the raid. 

The unusual 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 nearly anything for the person. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour dirt with the intention to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like teams usually are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine students say they had been promised spiritual observe solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a home made machine in an attempt to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has shortly 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 tv shows a woman, 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 woman remarked. “Solely these with a tainted thoughts may odor it.”

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

One twitter person identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular cases, moderately than native authorities. 

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

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

Several 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 country being like this,” another Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking the group’s compound for other suspicious materials. This is an ongoing story and we could have more details in the coming days.