Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 useless bodies found during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering at the very least 11 bodies throughout the search. Native authorities were capable of raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

Law enforcement had already been made conscious of the group after allegations were shared that the neighborhood 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.

Nonetheless, the group was only able to provide loss of life certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to determine the causes of dying of the bodies.

The suspected leader of the group has been detained for questioning, but earlier than the arrest many of his followers attempted to stop police from arresting the aged man in the course of the raid. 

The strange group was known in the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, the place devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do virtually something for the person. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and consume dirt in order to heal bodily sicknesses.

Cult-like groups usually are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine students say they were promised spiritual observe only to be coerced into intercourse or raped by its founder. Final yr, an aged monk decapitated himself with a selfmade gadget in an try and reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More extensively 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 against 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 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 lady remarked. “Only those with a tainted mind may smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter consumer pointed out that the one who uncovered this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual circumstances, reasonably than local authorities. 

“It was purported 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 happened as a failure of Thailand’s training system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the considered more than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to succeed in native police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they didn't respond by the point of publishing.

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