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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at least 11 our bodies throughout 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 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 chief. After police made their manner onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

However, the group was only able to present demise certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to ascertain the causes of death of the our bodies.

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

The unusual group was identified in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually something for the man. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dirt in an effort to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like groups will not be unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine college students say they were promised spiritual practice solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a selfmade device in an try to reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has shortly 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) noticed over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from television shows a lady, who seems 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 mind might scent it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious circumstances, reasonably than local authorities. 

“It was alleged 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

A number of tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they did not respond by the time of publishing.

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