Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead bodies discovered during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the very least 11 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 laws.

Law 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 approach onto the camp grounds, police then found the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely capable of present dying certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to establish the causes of demise of the bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, but before the arrest a lot of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the elderly man through the raid. 

The strange group was identified within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where 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 consume dirt so as to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like groups are usually not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine students say they had been promised religious apply only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a home made gadget in an try to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call 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 reveals a woman, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any unpleasant odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the lady remarked. “Only those with a tainted thoughts might scent it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious instances, relatively than local 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 education system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they did not respond by the time of publishing.

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