Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless bodies discovered throughout raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering a minimum of 11 our bodies during the search. Local authorities had been able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

Legislation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations had been shared that the group had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their means onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was only able to present dying certificates belonging to 5 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 chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but before the arrest lots of his followers tried to cease police from arresting the elderly man during 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 something for the person. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dust in an effort to heal physical sicknesses.

Cult-like teams usually are not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they had been promised religious practice only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a selfmade system in an attempt to reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him build 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 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) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv reveals a girl, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the lady remarked. “Only those with a tainted mind might 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 celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious instances, relatively than local authorities. 

“It was alleged 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

A number of 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,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't reply by the time of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless searching the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we will have more details in the coming days.