Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead our bodies discovered throughout 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. Local authorities had been in a position to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

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

Nevertheless, the group was only able to provide dying certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to determine the causes of death of the bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest a lot of his followers tried to stop police from arresting the aged man through the raid. 

The strange group was identified in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly something for the person. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour grime with a view to heal physical sicknesses.

Cult-like groups should not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female college students say they had been promised spiritual follow solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself system in an try to reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich 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 reveals a lady, who appears 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 lady remarked. “Only these with a tainted mind might scent it.”

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

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

“It was speculated to be the police that raided this cult in the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter user questioned.

ที่งงคือทำไมถึงต้องเป็นหมอปลาที่เป็นคนประสานหรือนำสังคมไปเจอเรื่องอะไรแบบนี้ ทั้งที่คนที่ควรจะเป็นบุกไปจับ ไปเจอ หรือเปิดเผยมันควรเป็น ตร. หรือ จนท. ของรัฐ ไม่ใช่หรอ ทำไมถึงปล่อยให้มีเรื่องขนาดนี้เกิดขึ้น สุดจริงบ้านนี้เมืองนี้ #พระบิดา

Several tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they did not reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still looking the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we could have more particulars within the coming days.