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

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

Regulation enforcement had already been made conscious of the group after allegations have been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their way onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

However, the group was solely able to present death certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to establish the causes of dying of the bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest many of his followers tried to stop police from arresting the elderly man throughout the raid. 

The unusual group was known within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the person. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat filth to be able to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like groups are usually not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they had been promised spiritual follow solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last 12 months, 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. More widely known 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 against 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 exhibits a girl, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any disagreeable odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the lady remarked. “Only those with a tainted thoughts might scent 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 celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular circumstances, slightly than local authorities. 

“It was speculated 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

Several tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably in the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of greater than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they didn't respond by the point of publishing.

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