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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering not less than 11 bodies during 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 have been shared that the group had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their approach onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the stays of 11 our bodies in coffins.

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

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

The strange group was recognized within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the person. Some say he would drive his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dirt in order to heal bodily sicknesses.

Cult-like teams usually are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine students say they have been promised non secular apply only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last year, an elderly 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. More broadly recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name 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 woman, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any disagreeable odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the woman remarked. “Only those with a tainted thoughts might smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user pointed out that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular instances, fairly than native authorities. 

“It was alleged to be the police that raided this cult in 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 schooling system, notably in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they did not respond by the point of publishing.

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