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

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult leader in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering no less than 11 our bodies through the search. Native authorities were capable of 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 have been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their manner onto the camp grounds, police then found the stays of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nevertheless, the group was solely capable of present death certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be conducted to ascertain the causes of loss of life of the our bodies.

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

The unusual group was known within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like method, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost something for the person. Some say he would power his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat dirt so as to heal physical illnesses.

Cult-like teams should not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed where female students say they have been promised religious observe only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a selfmade system in an try to 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 rich Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has shortly gone viral on social media, with netizens sharing their disgust towards 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 television shows a woman, 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 thoughts could smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter person pointed out that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a star volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious instances, relatively 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 training system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the nation being like this,” another Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach local police in Chaiyaphum for remark, however they did not respond by the time of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless searching the group’s compound for other suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we can have extra particulars in the coming days.