Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead our bodies found during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering a minimum of 11 our bodies throughout the search. Local authorities had been able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

Regulation enforcement had already been made conscious of the group after allegations have been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their way onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

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

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

The strange group was recognized within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually anything for the person. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour grime with the intention to heal bodily diseases.

Cult-like teams usually are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female students say they have been promised spiritual observe solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a selfmade system in an try to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra broadly identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has quickly 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 tv exhibits a lady, who seems 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 lady remarked. “Only these with a tainted thoughts could scent it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person pointed out that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular circumstances, relatively than local authorities. 

“It was purported 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 user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not respond by the time of publishing.

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