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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering no less than 11 bodies during the search. Native 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 conscious of the group after allegations had been shared that the group had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their way onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was only capable of provide demise certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to ascertain the causes of death of the bodies.

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

The unusual group was identified within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the man. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat filth to be able to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like teams are usually not unusual 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. Final 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade device in an try to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call 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 tv reveals a lady, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

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

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

One twitter user identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual cases, reasonably than local authorities. 

“It was supposed to be the police that raided this cult within 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 education system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't respond by the time of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless searching the group’s compound for other suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we can have extra particulars within the coming days.