Leader 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 no less than 11 bodies through the search. Native authorities have been capable of raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

Regulation enforcement had already been made conscious of the group after allegations were shared that the neighborhood 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 bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely capable of present death 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 bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, but before the arrest lots of his followers tried to stop police from arresting the aged man through the raid. 

The strange group was identified within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually something for the man. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat filth with a view to heal bodily diseases.

Cult-like teams are usually 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 practice solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a selfmade machine in an attempt to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has shortly gone viral on social media, with netizens sharing their disgust in opposition to 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 shows a lady, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

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

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

One twitter person identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular cases, slightly than native authorities. 

“It was alleged to be the police that raided this cult in 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 happened as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they did not respond by the time of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless searching the group’s compound for different suspicious material. This is an ongoing story and we will have extra details in the coming days.