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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at least 11 our bodies during the search. Local authorities were able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

Legislation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations were shared that the group 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 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely in a position to present dying certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to establish the causes of demise of the our bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, however 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 manner, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the man. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat filth in order to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like groups will not be unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine college students say they were promised non secular follow only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself gadget in an try and reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely 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 towards 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 tv exhibits a lady, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the woman remarked. “Solely these with a tainted mind might odor it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular circumstances, relatively than native 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 happened 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,” one other Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not reply by the time of publishing.

Authorities are still searching the group’s compound for other suspicious material. This is an ongoing story and we can have more details in the coming days.