Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless our bodies discovered throughout raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at least 11 bodies during the search. Native authorities were able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

Regulation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations had been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their approach onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was only able to provide loss of life certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to ascertain the causes of dying of the bodies.

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

The strange group was recognized within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the person. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour filth with the intention to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like groups should not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female college students say they were promised spiritual practice solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a home made machine in an try to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More extensively recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has quickly 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 television exhibits a woman, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any disagreeable odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the lady remarked. “Solely those with a tainted mind could odor it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious cases, moderately than local authorities. 

“It was speculated 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 happened as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they did not respond by the point of publishing.

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