Three BBC “Journalists” at Scotland’s UN Conference in Geneva, Then Silence: A Plausible MI5/MI6 Operation
3 journalists from the BBC World Service travelled to Geneva to cover a historic UN conference on Scotland’s right to self determination under international law; organised by Liberation Scotland, the officially recognised Scottish liberation movement at the UN. They attended the whole conference from start to finish, observing every intervention & every exchange. Refused permission to film the proceedings, they were allowed to ask 2 questions at the close & to conduct short interviews afterwards. I was one of the interviewees.
Before the event began I presented them with hard evidence of England’s colonial domination. I showed how the FCDO, the British Council & the BBC call Scots “English” & Scotland “England” every day in countries representing more than 3 billion people. I placed in their hands the official email of the English ambassador to Indonesia that endorsed this suppression of identity. Confronted with these documents, they could not offer a rebuttal. They understood, even if they did not admit, that the state parading as the “United Kingdom” is in reality England, forcing the English name onto every other nation under its power.
Although I had kept a low profile during the conference, they asked to interview me afterwards. I spoke without ambiguity. Scotland is an English colony under occupation. The plundering of resources & the theft of identity must end. England is delusional cf. Brexit. We bear no hatred towards English people in general but we want English colonisers out. Our cause is national recovery. England would ultimately gain from the separation, because it would be forced to reinvent its future rather than survive through colonial appropriation.
Then came silence.
The BBC World Service broadcast nothing. Not a report, not a line, not a fragment of what happened in Geneva. 3 reporters were dispatched to a major conference at the UN headquarters in Geneva. They followed the entire proceedings, they allowed to ask 2 questions, they recorded interviews, & then they erased it all. In a supposed union of equals, in what is presented as a voluntary partnership, Scotland’s struggle for freedom was treated as if it did not exist.
This silence cannot be explained as routine editorial discretion. It reads instead as a deliberate act. The pattern is visible: gather intelligence, contain the message, suppress the coverage. When journalists behave as spooks (and are?), the distinction between media & state security collapses. MI5, MI6, the FCDO & the BBC function as different branches of the same colonial apparatus.
The Geneva episode illustrates the depth of Scotland’s condition. Scotland is not in a partnership, not in an equal union. Scotland is a colony. Colonies are silenced, renamed, denied recognition of their identity. Colonies are monitored, controlled, suppressed by the coloniser’s media. That is what unfolded in Geneva.
Philosophically, this silence constitutes more than absence. It is epistemic violence, the systematic destruction of knowledge about the colonised; & propaganda through omission, the erasure of truth to maintain domination. This is enforced amnesia, where the coloniser ensures that the struggle of the oppressed is never seen, heard, recorded or publicised. The English colonial state thrives not only through the plunder of land & resources but also through control of narrative & memory. Scotland’s conference at the UN revealed this clearly. The silence that followed confirmed it.
The episode proves beyond doubt that Scotland remains under colonial rule. The refusal to acknowledge the truth is not a mistake but a method. To overcome it requires exposing the silence & naming the violence; refusing erasure. That is the duty of all who resist colonial power. Saor Alba 🏴