Leader 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 least 11 our bodies throughout the search. Native authorities were able to 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 have been shared that the neighborhood had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their method onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

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

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, however before the arrest a lot of his followers tried to stop police from arresting the elderly man in the course of the raid. 

The unusual group was recognized 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 person. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat filth in an effort to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like groups usually are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female students say they have been promised religious practice only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a home made system in an try and reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly recognized 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 against 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 girl, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any disagreeable odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the girl remarked. “Solely those with a tainted mind could odor it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer pointed out that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual circumstances, moderately than local authorities. 

“It was alleged 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

Several tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking out the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we may have more particulars within the coming days.