Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless our bodies found during raid

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

Law 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 manner onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

However, 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 performed to ascertain 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 strange group was known in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly something for the person. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour dirt to be able to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like groups should not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine college students say they had been promised religious apply solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade device in an try to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra broadly known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has rapidly 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 reveals a lady, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any unpleasant odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

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

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular instances, rather than local 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

Several tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they didn't reply by the time 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 particulars within the coming days.