US-based Carnegie Mellon University has dissociated itself from tweets made by associate professor Uju Anya regarding Queen Elizabeth II of England.
Britain’s longest-reigning monarch died on Thursday at the age of 96. She passed away surrounded by members of the Royal Family at Balmoral Castle, Scotland.
Hours before Buckingham Palace announced her death, the Nigerian-born academic accused Elizabeth of doing nothing to prevent the “genocide” that led to her (Anya’s) family being displaced.
The modern language teacher Anya wrote in a tweet now deleted by Twitter: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.”
Anya added that all she had for the dying monarch was disdain.
Reacting to the development, the university said although it believes in “free expression”, it does not condone the views expressed by the professor.
“We do not condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya today on her personal social media account.
“Free expression is core to the mission of higher education, however, the views she shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution no the standards of discourse we seek to foster,” the university said.
