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Ashura is famous for the people practising self-flagellation but Ashura is more than that. For the Shia people, the Day of Ashura is the tenth day of Muharram and commemorates the killing of Hussein and his 72 relatives by the Umayyad caliphate in Karbala, Iraq. In Iran, this is the time for unique celebrations all over the country.
In Bijar, in the Kurdish province of Iran, Ashura day is celebrated with a giant procession during which men and some women smear their heads with mud and wander in the streets while carrying the symbolic coffin of Hussein, who was beheaded in Karbala.