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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the least 11 our bodies throughout the search. Local authorities have been capable of 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 have been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their method onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely capable of present death certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to determine the causes of demise of the bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest lots of his followers tried to stop police from arresting the aged man through the raid. 

The strange group was recognized within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually anything for the person. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dust in an effort to heal bodily sicknesses.

Cult-like groups are usually not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine college students say they were promised religious follow solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a home made device in an try and reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra broadly recognized 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) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv reveals a lady, who seems 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 woman remarked. “Only those with a tainted mind might odor it.”

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

One twitter person identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular instances, moderately than native authorities. 

“It was supposed to be the police that raided this cult within 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 occurred as a failure of Thailand’s education 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 tried to succeed in local 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. This is an ongoing story and we may have extra details within the coming days.