Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 lifeless 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 through the search. Native authorities were able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

Regulation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations were shared that the group had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. 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 loss of life certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to ascertain the causes of loss of life of the our bodies.

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

The strange group was recognized in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the man. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour filth as a way 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 college students say they were promised spiritual apply only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final year, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a homemade device in an try to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra widely 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 in opposition to the cult’s practices of consuming human waste. The Thai-language hashtag #พระบิดา (#Father) saw 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 didn't detect any unpleasant odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the woman remarked. “Only these with a tainted mind might scent it.”

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

One twitter consumer 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 alleged to be the police that raided this cult within the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter user 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 education system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not respond by the point of publishing.

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