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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering no less than 11 our bodies throughout the search. Local authorities were in a position to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

Legislation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations had been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their manner onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely capable of present demise certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to establish the causes of loss of life of the our bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, however before the arrest lots of his followers tried to cease police from arresting the elderly man in the course of the raid. 

The unusual group was identified in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the man. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dust so as to heal bodily sicknesses.

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 were promised spiritual follow only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a homemade system in an attempt to reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More extensively 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) noticed over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from television shows a girl, who seems 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. “Solely these with a tainted mind may odor 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 star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious instances, relatively than native authorities. 

“It was supposed 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 schooling system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they did not reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still looking the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. This is an ongoing story and we can have extra details within the coming days.