Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless 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 bodies during the search. Native authorities were able 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 were shared that the neighborhood had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their method onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was solely capable of present loss of life certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to ascertain the causes of dying of the bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest lots of his followers attempted to cease police from arresting the elderly man in the course of the raid. 

The strange group was identified in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the man. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour dirt so as to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like teams are usually not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine students say they had been promised spiritual practice solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a selfmade device in an try and reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has quickly 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 tv shows a lady, 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 lady remarked. “Only those with a tainted mind could 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 celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual cases, relatively than native authorities. 

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

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

A number of 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 more than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't reply by the time of publishing.

Authorities are still looking out the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we may have extra particulars within the coming days.