Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless our bodies discovered during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the very least 11 bodies through the search. Local authorities had been in a position 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 neighborhood had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their way onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

However, the group was solely capable of provide dying certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to determine the causes of demise of the our bodies.

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

The strange 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 force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour filth in an effort to heal bodily sicknesses.

Cult-like teams should not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they had been promised religious apply only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a homemade system in an try and reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra broadly identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name 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 appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the lady remarked. “Solely those with a tainted thoughts may odor it.”

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

One twitter person pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious circumstances, fairly than local authorities. 

“It was presupposed to be the police that raided this cult in the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter user questioned.

ที่งงคือทำไมถึงต้องเป็นหมอปลาที่เป็นคนประสานหรือนำสังคมไปเจอเรื่องอะไรแบบนี้ ทั้งที่คนที่ควรจะเป็นบุกไปจับ ไปเจอ หรือเปิดเผยมันควรเป็น ตร. หรือ จนท. ของรัฐ ไม่ใช่หรอ ทำไมถึงปล่อยให้มีเรื่องขนาดนี้เกิดขึ้น สุดจริงบ้านนี้เมืองนี้ #พระบิดา

Several tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however 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 can have more particulars within the coming days.