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

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

Regulation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations had been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their method onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely in a position to provide death certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to establish the causes of dying of the our bodies.

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

The strange group was identified in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly something for the person. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dust with a view to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like groups will not be uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female college students say they have been promised spiritual follow only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last year, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a selfmade device in an try and reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him construct the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively identified is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has shortly 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) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv reveals a girl, who appears 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 girl remarked. “Only these with a tainted mind might scent it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
กูหลุดขำกับคำพูดนี้มาก ยายแกคิดได้ไง5555555555555555#พระบิดา pic.twitter.com/rNOaZJBLxq

One twitter person pointed out that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious non secular instances, quite than native authorities. 

“It was speculated 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 in the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the nation being like this,” one other Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they didn't respond by the point of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking the group’s compound for different suspicious material. That is an ongoing story and we can have more particulars in the coming days.