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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering a minimum of 11 our bodies through the search. Local authorities have been in a position to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment laws and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

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

Nevertheless, the group was solely in a position to provide demise certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to ascertain the causes of death of the our bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, however earlier than the arrest a lot of his followers tried to cease police from arresting the aged man in the course of 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 nearly anything for the person. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour grime with a purpose to heal bodily sicknesses.

Cult-like teams will not be uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine students say they were promised non secular follow only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Last yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a do-it-yourself device in an try and reincarnate as a higher being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively 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 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 reveals a lady, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any unpleasant odor while consuming the human waste.  

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

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular cases, moderately than local authorities. 

“It was presupposed to be the police that raided this cult within the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter consumer 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 area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to succeed in local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, but they did not respond by the time of publishing.

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