Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead our bodies found 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. Native authorities were capable of 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 have been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their method onto the camp grounds, police then found the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was only capable of present death certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to determine the causes of demise of the bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, however earlier than the arrest many of his followers attempted to cease police from arresting the aged man during 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 something for the man. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dust with a view to heal bodily diseases.

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 have been promised non secular practice solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a selfmade device in an try and reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra broadly identified 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 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 girl, 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 woman remarked. “Solely these with a tainted thoughts may smell it.”

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

One twitter user identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular instances, quite than local authorities. 

“It was supposed 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

Several tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

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