Leader 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 through the search. Local authorities had been able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

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

Nevertheless, the group was only in a position to provide dying certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to determine the causes of dying of the bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest lots of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the elderly man in the course of 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 virtually something for the man. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dust as a way to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like groups are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where feminine college students say they were promised non secular observe solely to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final yr, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a home made device in an try to reincarnate as the next being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More extensively known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively rich 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) saw 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 unpleasant odor while consuming the human waste.  

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

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

One twitter user identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual instances, somewhat than native authorities. 

“It was speculated to be the police that raided this cult in the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter user 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 space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered greater than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter user wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to achieve local police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

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