Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless our 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 through the search. Local authorities had been 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 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 method onto the camp grounds, police then found the remains of 11 bodies in coffins.

However, the group was only in a position to present demise certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to ascertain the causes of death of the bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, however before the arrest a lot of his followers attempted to cease police from arresting the elderly man during the raid. 

The unusual group was known within the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the person. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat filth with the intention to heal physical sicknesses.

Cult-like groups should not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they had been promised spiritual apply solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final year, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a selfmade machine in an try and reincarnate as a higher 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 rapidly 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) noticed over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv exhibits a lady, who appears to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the girl remarked. “Solely those with a tainted mind might odor it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user pointed out that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual circumstances, moderately than native authorities. 

“It was alleged to be the police that raided this cult in 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 happened as a failure of Thailand’s education system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't respond by the time of publishing.

Authorities are still searching the group’s compound for different suspicious material. That is an ongoing story and we can have extra particulars within the coming days.