A professor who wished the Queen 'excruciating pain' in death has doubled down on her comments, saying the late monarch 'sat on a throne of blood'.
Picture: AlamyA professor who wished the Queen "excruciating pain" in death has doubled down on her comments, saying the late monarch 'sat on a throne of blood'.Dr Ujua Anya, a professor of linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University, first came under fire for her remarks ahead of the announcement of the Queen's death last week.
Dr Anya accused the monarch of being directly responsible for the death of millions in the Nigerian Civil War. She continued: "People expected me to be calm or to be... when the person who literally paid money for bombs and guns and military supplies to come and massacre your people is dying, you're not supped to dance."
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