Re: CNN Christiane Amanpour’s Husband Hired By Mnangagwa To Help Remove Targeted Sanctions.
Dear Mr Euan Steedman (CNN Press Officer).
Please let me express my shock, and displeasure at a conflict of interest issue manifested through your bullying me as you have tried hard as CNN to hide ongoing crimes against humanity in Zimbabwe.
By virtue of your attempts to suppress facts, you are making CNN a participant in this scandal. This is unethical.
You telephoned me on Friday at around 1320h to bully me as you forced me to delete the mention of CNN in a headline. This is an attempt to hide ongoing crimes against humanity (in Zimbabwe) defined under US, and international law.
1. You began promoting these acts during a CNN Sept 2018 interview when CNN engaged a well known terrorist and dictator (Emmerson Mnangagwa) who has killed more blacks than apartheid South Africa. You avoided LIVE video broadcast (state media) evidence seen before the whole world showing in full colour the willful deployment of armed forces on innocent civilians for the singular declared purpose of changing 2018 election results, all announced on LIVE television 10 months before the CNN 21st Sept 2018 interview (on the 15th December 2017.) This evidence is in the public domain accessible with a single mouse click…
2. You did all this knowing clearly you were interviewing someone who is running a terrorist regime which is being sustained by only military terrorism.
3. During that interview, your anchor Christiane Amanpour employed obvious rehearsed questions on Mnangagwa.
4. She even visibly smiled and in an encouraging way while talking to this terrorist, in the very act of communicating utter falsehoods.
5. You telephoned me on Friday 8th March seeking the mere amending of a headline so that you would distance yourself (at a PR level) from this very same man who you have actively participated in promoting.
6. You have failed to demonstrate that your Sept 2018 interview was for journalism. You have shown that it was for public relations purposes than any journalism.
7. You called me on Friday 8th March to carry out your obsessive concern for what I show with evidence was a PR cover up for promoting this terrorist, as you try to distance yourselves from this same terrorist who you are promoting. You claimed that Mr James Rubin is not married to Christiane Amanpour.
8. At 1327h you promised to send evidence of her said divorce to James Rubin via email.
9. By end of day 8th March, there was no such evidence provided by you, and neither any to show that the two are now totally inseparable. Instead of providing the promised evidence, you sent an empty email with a bullyish statement which I also found to be abusive and condescending.
10. When I telephoned you back near the end of day, you kept talking over me while I was replying you to explain to you simple words, meanings and facts as they are in our Zimbabwean language for whom I publish, and you showed no interest in wishing to understand. I found your approach of making repeated demands while screaming at me and interrupting me, harassing and abusive.
11. You ignored my request to consider the comparison of favourable treatment of this terrorist Emmerson Mnangagwa, vis a vis your treatment of terrorist organisations such as Al Qaeda, or ISIS.
12. For example, you have continued to attack President Donald Trump for his statements on race and politics and yet you ignore a well known terrorist committing genocide against his own citizens.
13. I request that you cease your harassment of me and any other Zimbabwean journalist or member of our community, particularly as you continue promoting this terrorist (one man) who has killed more blacks than apartheid South Africa.
14. I request that you cease promoting these selective acts of conflict of interests. By aiding, abetting and lobbying work for persons committing crimes against humanity in Zimbabwe you compromise your public standing. Please stand firm and be consistent in what you stand for regardless of weather. I shall not bow to PR cover ups.
15. I state expressly state that it would be ideal for Christiane Amanpour to engage me in an interview or narration to state her direct version of events. Instead of CNN doing a generic PR or damage control task, a more direct statement from impacted party could help deal with the major issues or concerns.
16. Instead of bullying me, I hope you shall forward my request to her and set up an appointment to set the record straight, should you be truly interested in doing that.
I wish you take this matter with the seriousness it deserves.
Simbarashe Chikanza