Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 lifeless bodies discovered during raid

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

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 leader. After police made their way onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

However, the group was solely capable of provide dying certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to ascertain the causes of death of the our bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, however earlier than the arrest many of his followers tried to stop police from arresting the aged man during the raid. 

The strange group was known within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the person. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat filth to be able to heal bodily diseases.

Cult-like teams are usually not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female students say they have been promised spiritual apply only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a selfmade system in an attempt to reincarnate as a higher 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 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 tv 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 lady remarked. “Solely these with a tainted mind could scent it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
กูหลุดขำกับคำพูดนี้มาก ยายแกคิดได้ไง5555555555555555#พระบิดา pic.twitter.com/rNOaZJBLxq

One twitter person identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular instances, rather than native authorities. 

“It was presupposed to be the police that raided this cult in 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 training system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't respond by the point of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking out the group’s compound for other suspicious material. That is an ongoing story and we could have extra details within the coming days.