Twitter has deleted the tweets by Uju Anya, a lecturer at the Carnegie Mellon University, USA, over her remarks regarding Queen Elizabeth II of England.
The microblogging site deleted the message hours after it was posted on Tuesday.
“This tweet violated the Twitter rules,” the micro-blogging platform noted.
A few hours before the Queen’s death, Anya had criticised the late monarch in a series of tweets and wished her “excruciating pain”.
“If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star.” Ayu tweeted.
The Nigerian-born academic had accused the late monarch of sponsoring the “genocide” that led to her family being displaced.
“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating,” the now-deleted tweets read in part.
Her tweets generated thousands of mixed reactions. While many people condemned her, others agreed with what she wrote.
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, was one of those who reacted to Anya’s tweets.
“This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow,” he tweeted.
