Tens of thousands of people attend a mass rally in Scotland to demand the region’s independence from the United Kingdom.
Local media said Saturday that at least 30,000 people attended the rally in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh.
The march came amid increasing calls on the Scottish National Party (SNP) leadership to decide on another independence referendum that could finally separate the wealthy region from the rest of Britain.
It marked the culmination of a series of protests and demonstrations across Scotland in the summer which saw tens of thousands calling for freedom from the British rule. Grassroots group All Under One Banner (AUOB), which have been organizing the events, managed to attract some 40,000 people to its first march in Glasgow in May. The rally was the biggest popular action in the city since the rally against the Iraq war in 2003.
AUOB and other pro-independence movements across Scotland have been calling on the SNP…