Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless bodies found throughout raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering a minimum of 11 our bodies during the search. Local authorities had been able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

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

Nevertheless, the group was only in a position to present dying certificates belonging to five 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 many of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the elderly man throughout the raid. 

The unusual group was identified within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually anything for the man. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dust with a purpose to heal bodily diseases.

Cult-like groups are usually not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female college students say they have been promised non secular practice only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a selfmade device in an attempt to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More extensively 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 exhibits a woman, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any unpleasant odor while consuming the human waste.  

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

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular cases, somewhat 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

A number of tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't respond by the time of publishing.

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