Leader 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 at the very least 11 bodies during the search. Native 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 have been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their method onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

However, the group was solely in a position to provide loss of life 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 bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, however before the arrest a lot of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the elderly man in the course of the raid. 

The unusual group was known within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost something for the man. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dust with a view to heal bodily diseases.

Cult-like teams are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine students say they were promised religious apply solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself machine in an try to 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 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 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 shows a woman, who seems 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 woman remarked. “Solely those with a tainted thoughts may odor it.”

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

One twitter person identified that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular circumstances, moderately than local authorities. 

“It was imagined to be the police that raided this cult in 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 country being like this,” one other Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not reply by the time of publishing.

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