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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering not less than 11 bodies through the search. Native authorities were able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

Law enforcement had already been made conscious of the group after allegations were shared that the neighborhood had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their means onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely in a position to provide dying 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 our bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest lots of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the aged man through the raid. 

The unusual group was known within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly something for the man. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dust with a purpose to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like teams are usually not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine students say they have been promised non secular observe solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final year, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a home made device in an attempt to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More widely known 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) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv shows a lady, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any disagreeable odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

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

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual circumstances, quite than local authorities. 

“It was imagined to be the police that raided this cult in 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 training system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they did not reply by the time of publishing.

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