Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead bodies found throughout raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering a minimum of 11 our bodies in the course of the search. Native authorities have been in a position to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

Law enforcement had already been made conscious of the group after allegations were shared that the neighborhood had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their way onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

However, the group was only able to provide demise certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to ascertain the causes of demise of the 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 aged man throughout the raid. 

The strange group was identified in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the person. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat grime with a purpose to heal physical sicknesses.

Cult-like groups will not be uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine students say they were promised non secular follow solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself system in an try to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra broadly recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has rapidly 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) noticed over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from television shows a woman, who appears 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. “Only these with a tainted mind could smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious circumstances, relatively than local authorities. 

“It was imagined 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

A number of tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they didn't respond by the time of publishing.

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