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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering a minimum of 11 our bodies throughout the search. Local authorities had 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 conscious of the group after allegations were shared that the neighborhood had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their method onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

However, the group was only capable of provide loss of life certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to ascertain the causes of loss of life 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 throughout the raid. 

The strange group was identified in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually something for the man. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dust to be able to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like groups are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female college students say they have been promised religious observe only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a home made gadget in an try and reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely identified 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 television exhibits a girl, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

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

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual cases, somewhat than native authorities. 

“It was imagined to be the police that raided this cult in the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter user 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 space 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 tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they didn't respond by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still searching the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we will have more details in the coming days.