Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead our bodies discovered throughout raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering not less than 11 our bodies during the search. Local authorities were able 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 community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their means onto the camp grounds, police then found the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely able to provide dying certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to establish the causes of loss of life of the our bodies.

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

The unusual group was known within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost something for the person. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour grime in an effort to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like groups usually are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female college students say they were promised religious follow solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade system in an try and reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More widely identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call 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 reveals a girl, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any unpleasant odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the girl remarked. “Only these with a tainted thoughts might odor it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular instances, fairly than native authorities. 

“It was alleged 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

A number of tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably in the area 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 attempted to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they did not respond by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still looking out the group’s compound for other suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we could have extra particulars in the coming days.