A monument planned for a Melbourne park to honour the victims of genocide has angered a host of ethnic groups and even prompted the Turkish Consulate General to demand the project be scrapped.

The statue was to be erected in Preston's Ray Bramham Gardens in November last year in recognition of everyone affected by genocide, but the project has been delayed by ongoing controversy.

Members of the Sri Lankan and Turkish community have objected to the use of the word genocide, while there were calls for the suffering of Aboriginal people to be specifically noted in the monument's descriptive panel.

Darebin Council has since approved new wording that recognises "the Crime of Genocide inflicted historically upon Aboriginal people of this country", but not without another drama.

There were calls for deputy mayor Oliver Walsh to resign after the Liberal councillor questioned if it was the council's role to decide whether the injustices inflicted upon the Aboriginal people could be considered genocide.