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 not less than 11 bodies during the search. Native authorities were in a position to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

Law 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 manner onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

However, the group was only capable of present dying certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to establish the causes of loss of life of the our bodies.

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

The unusual group was known within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the man. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat filth to be able to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like teams usually are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female college students say they have been promised spiritual practice only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a home made gadget in an try and reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More widely recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has rapidly 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 tv exhibits a girl, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any unpleasant odor while consuming the human waste.  

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

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

One twitter consumer pointed out that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual instances, somewhat 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

Several tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

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