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 the very least 11 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.

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 approach onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was solely capable of present death certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to determine the causes of loss of life of the bodies.

The suspected chief 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 through the raid. 

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

Cult-like groups aren't unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they have been promised religious observe only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a selfmade gadget in an try to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

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

A snippet from television shows a lady, 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 woman remarked. “Solely 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 non secular cases, quite than local 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 occurred as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they didn't reply by the time of publishing.

Authorities are still looking the group’s compound for other suspicious material. This is an ongoing story and we may have more particulars in the coming days.