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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the very least 11 bodies in the course of the search. Native authorities were 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 means onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

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

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, however earlier than the arrest many of his followers tried to stop police from arresting the elderly man throughout the raid. 

The strange group was known in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the man. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour filth with the intention to heal bodily diseases.

Cult-like groups should not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine college students say they were promised non secular observe only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself machine in an attempt to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build 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 television exhibits a woman, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any unpleasant odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the woman remarked. “Solely those with a tainted mind could 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 spiritual circumstances, fairly than native authorities. 

“It was alleged 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

A number of tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't respond by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still looking out the group’s compound for different suspicious material. That is an ongoing story and we may have extra details in the coming days.