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Thailand’s red card roulette

By Muktita Suhartono
A volunteer recruit getting fitted for his uniform in Nonthaburi. — Lauren DeCicca/The New York Times

THE crowd started trickling in to a mall on the outskirts of Bangkok around 7am on a recent Thursday. Hundreds of people showed up, most of them men.

They were there to pick a card from a jar.

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