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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at least 11 bodies through the search. Local authorities were in a position to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

Legislation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations were 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 remains of 11 bodies in coffins.

However, the group was only in a position to provide loss of life certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to establish the causes of dying of the our bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, however before the arrest many of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the elderly man throughout the raid. 

The unusual group was known in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly something for the man. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour dirt in order to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like groups aren't unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine students say they have been promised non secular observe solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a home made system in an try and reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More extensively 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 against 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 shows a woman, who seems 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. “Only those with a tainted thoughts could smell it.”

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

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

“It was presupposed to be the police that raided this cult within the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter consumer 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 space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking the group’s compound for other suspicious material. That is an ongoing story and we may have more details within the coming days.