Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 lifeless our bodies found during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at least 11 bodies during the search. Native authorities were 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 group had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their means onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

However, the group was only able to provide loss of life certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to ascertain the causes of demise of the our bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, however earlier than the arrest lots of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the aged man during the raid. 

The unusual group was identified in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually anything for the person. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat filth in an effort to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like teams aren't unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine college students say they were promised non secular observe only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an aged monk decapitated himself with a homemade machine in an attempt to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra broadly identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has shortly 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 television shows a woman, who appears 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 thoughts may 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 star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular instances, rather than native authorities. 

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

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

A number of tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they did not respond by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still looking out the group’s compound for other suspicious material. This is an ongoing story and we could have extra details in the coming days.