Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless bodies discovered during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at least 11 bodies throughout the search. Native authorities have been in a position 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 were shared that the neighborhood had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. 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 in a position to provide demise certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to establish the causes of death of the our bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest a lot of his followers tried to stop police from arresting the elderly man during 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 almost something for the man. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume filth with a purpose to heal bodily diseases.

Cult-like groups are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female students say they had been promised religious observe solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself machine in an try to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build 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 shortly 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 exhibits a lady, 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 thoughts may scent it.”

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

One twitter person pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious circumstances, rather than local authorities. 

“It was supposed to be the police that raided this cult within the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter consumer questioned.

ที่งงคือทำไมถึงต้องเป็นหมอปลาที่เป็นคนประสานหรือนำสังคมไปเจอเรื่องอะไรแบบนี้ ทั้งที่คนที่ควรจะเป็นบุกไปจับ ไปเจอ หรือเปิดเผยมันควรเป็น ตร. หรือ จนท. ของรัฐ ไม่ใช่หรอ ทำไมถึงปล่อยให้มีเรื่องขนาดนี้เกิดขึ้น สุดจริงบ้านนี้เมืองนี้ #พระบิดา

Several tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't respond by the time of publishing.

Authorities are still looking the group’s compound for different suspicious material. That is an ongoing story and we will have extra particulars within the coming days.